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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sharpe's Ransom p. 67-79.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does Sharpe go to consult?
(a) Smith.
(b) Gudin.
(c) Picard.
(d) Nicholls.

2. How many Frenchmen are coming from the South?
(a) 1000.
(b) 500.
(c) 50.
(d) 100.

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

4. What does Picard say Gudin has become used to?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Being rescued.
(c) Defeat.
(d) The good life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe use to repair the farmhouse?

2. Who appears on the road above the farm?

3. To what does Caillou object?

4. What happens when some Frenchmen kick over a barrel?

5. Why does Sharpe have his men stationed fifty paces back from the frontier?

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