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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. When does the assault on Ciudad Rodrigo begin?
(a) Late morning.
(b) As night falls.
(c) Early afternoon.
(d) At dawn.

2. What do the French do when the British attack?
(a) Turn on them.
(b) Retreat.
(c) Pushes them into a mined area.
(d) Breaks up the ditches the British have dug.

3. Who captures one of the bastions?
(a) No one.
(b) A British assault force.
(c) Sharpe's company.
(d) The Spanish.

4. Why is Sharpe summoned to his old company?
(a) Rymer has frozen up.
(b) Rymer has been killed.
(c) Hakeswill has disappeared.
(d) Harper has been injured.

5. What does Sharpe see as he wanders Ciudad Rodrigo that the British soldiers are doing?
(a) Handing out food to the residents.
(b) Burning houses.
(c) Killing children.
(d) Mass rape and pillage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sharpe and Harper do when they come into the stables?

2. What is in the very center of Badajoz?

3. What do Colonel Lawford and Sharpe discuss in Chapter 2?

4. What was Hakeswill charged with when he was young?

5. What relationship does Sharpe think about when with Teresa?

(see the answer key)

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