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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sharpe's Ransom p. 89-97.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Picard send the voltiguers?
(a) To the vanguard.
(b) To the slopes where the riflemen are hidden.
(c) To the rear as reserves.
(d) To the west to circle back around Irati.

2. Who causes Gudin's first major defeat?
(a) Picard.
(b) Sharpe.
(c) Caillou.
(d) Wellington.

3. Who is sitting opposite Lucille when Sharpe enters the kitchen?
(a) Patrick Harper.
(b) A small, bespectacled man.
(c) Malan.
(d) Father Defoy.

4. Whose garrison must Picard rescue?
(a) No one's.
(b) Sharpe's.
(c) Nicholl's.
(d) Gudin's.

5. What does Lucille pray?
(a) Malan will move.
(b) Sharpe will take her to England.
(c) Sharpe will be willing to stay in Seleglise.
(d) The villagers will warm up to Sharpe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does D'Alembord think of Sharpe?

2. About what do Harper and Sharpe argue near the end of the story?

3. What does Sharpe look for when he walks north?

4. From what disaster are some of the men at the Fort at Ochagavia taking refuge?

5. What does Sharpe tell Malan to break?

(see the answer key)

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