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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Spanish forces?
(a) The Regimientia de Sevilla.
(b) The Regimientia de Barcelona.
(c) The Regimientia de Madrid.
(d) The Regimientia de Santa Maria.

2. What does Hogan joke he can do now the Spanish have arrived?
(a) Win the war.
(b) Go to bed.
(c) Sleep at night.
(d) Take out his anger.

3. Which of Sharpe's friends dies in Chapter Eight?
(a) Sergeant Harper.
(b) Captain Lennox.
(c) Sir Arthur Wellesey
(d) General Hogan.

4. What do Sharpe and his men now have the materials to do at the end of the chapter?
(a) Defeat the French.
(b) Set up camp.
(c) Fix the bridge.
(d) Help the wounded.

5. What does the French officer say the British are unlucky to have?
(a) Colonel Simmerson.
(b) The Spanish troops.
(c) Arthur Wellesey.
(d) British food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lawford teach Sharpe?

2. Of what does the author say many will die in the days ahead?

3. Who tells Sharpe he will ruin his career?

4. What is the name of the regiment Sir Henry Simmerson commands?

5. What does Simmerson challenge Sharpe to train his troops to do?

(see the answer key)

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