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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Simmerson claim Sharpe is responsible for their loss against the French?
(a) He blew up the bridge.
(b) He refused to follow his orders.
(c) He charged at the Spanish.
(d) He failed to send out his riflemen.

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

3. Wellesey is wise in the ways of what?
(a) Diplomacy.
(b) The commoner.
(c) Women.
(d) Spanish culture.

4. Simmerson tells Sharpe he comes from where?
(a) The sewers.
(b) The orphanage.
(c) The gutter.
(d) A common home.

5. Where are the official army headquarters?
(a) Fleet Street.
(b) Whitehall.
(c) Albert Hall.
(d) St Paul's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has placed Hogan and Sharpe under arrest?

2. About what does Wellesley warn Sharpe after Simmerson leaves?

3. What are stocks?

4. How does the author describe the priest's Spanish?

5. What does Wellesey say people think he is running instead of an army?

(see the answer key)

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