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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sharpe's Christmas p. 38-46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Picard call his men back off the slopes?
(a) He is too sure of victory.
(b) He cannot hear the bugler.
(c) He is incompetent.
(d) He is not one to heed a warning.

2. What does Cornwell say Sharpe is determined not to lose in Sharpe's Ransom?
(a) His half brother.
(b) The gold he hid in a French monastery after Waterloo.
(c) A woman Sharpe's meets in a previous story.
(d) The only contact he has for finding his daughter.

3. Why does Gudin not think the Sharpe he is about to encounter is the same one he met in India?
(a) He saw the other Sharpe killed.
(b) Few men rise through the rank to become officers in the British army.
(c) The other Sharpe would be in his 70's now.
(d) He does not know a Sharpe awaits the French.

4. Who has sent for Sharpe?
(a) King George.
(b) Colonel Gudin.
(c) His wife.
(d) Colonel Hogan.

5. To whom is the telescope inscribed through which Sharpe is looking?
(a) Russeau.
(b) Gudin.
(c) Napoleon.
(d) The King of Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Sharpe figure it will take the French to advance?

2. What attack is the French army attempting to repel?

3. What is the Bernard and Judy Cornwell Foundation?

4. What does Ensign Nicholls tell Sharpe?

5. Who is CeCe Motz?

(see the answer key)

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