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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 does Sharpe think would make a nice Christmas present for his battalion?
(a) The quick surrender of the French.
(b) More women in the area.
(c) The new muskets the French are carrying.
(d) A French Eagle.

2. Who shoots Nicholls?
(a) Gudin.
(b) Caillou.
(c) No one.
(d) A British officer by mistake.

3. What does Caillou know Gudin will do?
(a) Waste his men's lives.
(b) Surrender.
(c) Keep his Eagle at any cost.
(d) Agree to leave Spain without their weapons.

4. What war in 1799 is the context of "Sharpe's Christmas"?
(a) The War of the Roses.
(b) The Mysore War.
(c) The Battle of Waterloo.
(d) The Boxer Rebellion.

5. With whose forces is Sharpe fighting in "Sharpe's Christmas"?
(a) French.
(b) British.
(c) Dutch.
(d) Italian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Sharpe order to advance when the French are only fifty paces away?

2. What does Sharpe learn about as the enemy are collecting their death and wounded?

3. Who causes Gudin's first major defeat?

4. What does Cornwell say exists to increase awareness of soldiers who fought in the early 19th century?

5. What are the French desperate to escape?

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