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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does General Hill try to raise the morale of the troops?
(a) He organizes a dinner.
(b) He promotes Sharpe.
(c) He compliments them.
(d) He flogs Simmerson.

2. What does Harper say the ox-carts axles creak like?
(a) Banshees.
(b) Wolves.
(c) Women.
(d) Babies.

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

4. What do the French capture from the British in Chapter Seven?
(a) Rifles.
(b) A cannon.
(c) A flag.
(d) A tent.

5. What does Harper use to clean out Sharpe's wound?
(a) Flies.
(b) Caterpillars.
(c) Maggots.
(d) Worms.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Sharpe's friends dies in Chapter Eight?

2. What does Josephina claim the two men have tried to do to her?

3. Sharpe spends his time working on what before the flogging?

4. What has Sharpe gotten that Gibbons wants?

5. Who tells Sharpe he will ruin his career?

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