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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What have the Spanish decided to do rather than fight?
(a) Make friends.
(b) Eat.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Drink.

2. How does the author describe the priest's Spanish?
(a) Fluent.
(b) Basic.
(c) Awful.
(d) Passable.

3. For what is Sharpe looking in the town before he meets a lieutenant from the South Essex?
(a) A water fountain.
(b) A beer.
(c) Wine.
(d) A manuscript.

4. From what does the author say Josephina is running away?
(a) The police.
(b) The Spanish government.
(c) A bad marriage.
(d) An abusive father.

5. What does Hogan say the deserters gave Simmerson a reason to do?
(a) Frame Sharpe.
(b) Flog innocent soldiers.
(c) Contact his cousin.
(d) Blow up the bridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is Sharpe talking at the beginning of Chapter Eleven?

2. What does the French officer say the British are unlucky to have?

3. What do Sharpe and his men now have the materials to do at the end of the chapter?

4. What is the problem the Spanish have caused the British in Chapter Seventeen?

5. Who thanks Sharpe at the end of Chapter Sixteen?

(see the answer key)

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