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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 through 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the French emphasize about the British forces?
(a) Their lack of reinforcements.
(b) Their small numbers.
(c) Their lack of supplies.
(d) Their incompetency.

2. What does Frederickson bring with him when he advances on the convent?
(a) Most of the fighting men.
(b) The rocket battalion.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Two squads of cavalry.

3. What begins to arrive after Sharpe and his group have the hostages?
(a) Reinforcements.
(b) Some of the nuns from the convent.
(c) The men holding the town.
(d) Some of the townspeople who were hiding.

4. What does Pot-au-Fea so when Sharpe reaches the castle?
(a) Commit his main force.
(b) Run away to the hills.
(c) Shoot Harper.
(d) Go to the village.

5. What does Farthingdale decide to do when the convent is attacked?
(a) Wait and see what Sharpe does.
(b) Hide in the basement.
(c) Go out the tunnel in the basement.
(d) Launch a counterattack.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is most of the basement in the convent filled?

2. Where are the English troops heading in the Prologue?

3. What are the two leaders of the Andrados force doing when they talk to Sharpe?

4. What does Dubreton do when he comes up to Sharpe?

5. Who finally arrives after Josefina speaks to Sharpe?

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