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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who interrupts Sharpe from his paperwork?
(a) Gibbons.
(b) Hogan.
(c) Simmerson.
(d) Harper.

2. What does Harper say to start the British charge?
(a) Victory.
(b) Forward.
(c) Charge.
(d) March.

3. What part of his body has one of the deserters lost?
(a) His nose.
(b) His hand.
(c) His arm.
(d) His foot.

4. Sharpe spends his time working on what before the flogging?
(a) Organizing a mutiny.
(b) Recruiting men.
(c) Administrative duties.
(d) Sleeping.

5. Who will pick the men to be punished?
(a) The generals.
(b) The captains.
(c) Simmerson.
(d) Josephina.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe order his soldiers to use as a target?

2. Where are the official army headquarters?

3. Sharpe throws the lieutenant into what?

4. What does Simmerson say will happen to sixty men at 6pm?

5. What does Simmerson say he will do after Wellesley places blame for the defeat?

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