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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 Lawford tell Sharpe about his assignment?
(a) He will be his aide-de-camp.
(b) He will command his company.
(c) He is being transferred to the baggage train.
(d) He will lead the forlorn hope.

2. Why will the British be throwing bags of hay into the ditch at Ciudad Rodrigo?
(a) To build up a wall.
(b) To soak up the water.
(c) To soften the hay for the horses.
(d) To cushion the jumps of soldiers.

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

4. What does Windham do to Harper?
(a) Sentences him to a flogging.
(b) Puts him in chains.
(c) Has him beaten and court martialed.
(d) Throws him to the French.

5. How do the two diversionary attacks end up?
(a) They are all killed.
(b) Successful.
(c) As failures.
(d) They are half successful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the British do with the captured bastion?

2. Who is Ensign Matthews?

3. Where is Badajoz located?

4. What is Hakeswill's most obvious character defect?

5. How does the encounter with the man in question # 65 affect Sharpe?

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