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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hakeswill spend his time thinking about during the assault preparations?
(a) Raping Windham's wife.
(b) Raping Teresa.
(c) Killing Wellington.
(d) Killing Hogan.

2. Who is selected for the assault on the dam?
(a) Hakeswill's platoon.
(b) The fifth cavalry.
(c) Sharpe's old company.
(d) Somerset's marines.

3. Why are the men of Sharpe's old company not doing their job?
(a) Rymer is too indecisive.
(b) They are finished with their part of the operation.
(c) They have killed all the defenders.
(d) Rymer forgot the plan.

4. What worries Sharpe about Lawford?
(a) That he is being transferred.
(b) The he won't survive.
(c) His son was killed in the battle.
(d) He's missing in action.

5. How are the walls of Badajoz reinforced?
(a) With steel girders.
(b) With concrete pilings.
(c) With ravelins and a glacis.
(d) With a wooden stockade.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what type of terms did Teresa and Sharpe part?

2. With what are the men Sharpe leads into the battle with the French armed?

3. What type of position does Sharpe's company assume?

4. What is the force going to the dam supposed to do?

5. In Chapter 8, what begins to arrive for the battalion?

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