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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summary Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of the Portuguese battalion survived the attack by Loup?
(a) One third.
(b) About a quarter.
(c) One half.
(d) Only about one fifth.

2. What do Sharpe and Harper find in other cottages?
(a) Mutilated and tortured Spaniards.
(b) Cowering civilians.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Food and water.

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

4. How does Kiely's duel with a Frenchman end?
(a) Juanita shoots his opponent.
(b) The Frenchman draws first blood.
(c) Kiely cuts off the Frenchman's hand.
(d) Kiely kills his opponent.

5. What does Sharpe find in Juanita's panniers?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Sharpe's telescope.
(c) Loup's battle plans.
(d) False newspapers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe ask El Castrador to do?

2. What does Sharpe say to Hogan about Sarsfield?

3. What will Juanita's undercover disguise be?

4. What does Ducos disapprove of as far as soldiers go?

5. What does Tarrant want Sharpe's greencoats to do?

(see the answer key)

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