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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position will Colonel Claud Runciman fill with the Real Compañía Irlandesa?
(a) British liaison.
(b) Unit commander.
(c) British intelligence officer.
(d) Cavalry officer.

2. What are the two Frenchmen in the village doing when Sharpe arrives?
(a) Killing the Spanish men.
(b) Burning the houses.
(c) Sleeping off a drunk.
(d) Raping a young woman.

3. What is Richard Sharpe and his troops' dilemma at the beginning of the book?
(a) They are surrounded.
(b) They have no ammunition.
(c) They are lost.
(d) They have no food.

4. Why is Father Sarsfield impressed with Sharpe?
(a) Sharpe came up through the ranks.
(b) Sharpe has captured a French eagle.
(c) Sharpe can pick locks.
(d) Sharpe is known as a famous swordsman.

5. What does Guy Loup demand of Sharpe?
(a) That Sharpe surrender.
(b) The money that was in the village chapel.
(c) His two men.
(d) That they fight a duel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one of the Frenchmen do immediately?

2. How does Hogan feel about Sharpe's interaction with Kiely?

3. What does Ducos plan to do with the British forces?

4. What position does Pierre Ducos have with the French military?

5. What does a look-out spot below them?

(see the answer key)

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