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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sharpe's Ransom p. 57-67.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when some Frenchmen kick over a barrel?
(a) It explodes.
(b) The barrel's staves break and the wine spills.
(c) The wine leaks out.
(d) Nothing.

2. What are the French desperate to escape?
(a) Spain.
(b) The Dutch.
(c) The Russians on their flank.
(d) The huge British army on their flank.

3. Why does Picard think Caillou is commanding the forces that are fighting?
(a) Gudin was not coming from that direction.
(b) Picard does not know who might be in charge.
(c) Caillou outranks Gudin.
(d) Gudin would never fight so fiercely.

4. What does Sharpe notice is rusted?
(a) His knife.
(b) Many of his men's muskets.
(c) His sword edge.
(d) The cogwheels.

5. Of what is Colonel Gudin's career full?
(a) Honors.
(b) Battles.
(c) Strife.
(d) Failures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cornwell say he never expected?

2. Who fiercely hates Sharpe in the village?

3. What does Lucille deliberately do as she is gathering the wash?

4. Picard thinks ____________ are on the slopes.

5. What is the state of England in Sharpe's Ransom?

(see the answer key)

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