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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 through 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is being done to a woman with a hot iron?
(a) Nothing.
(b) She is having her fingers burned.
(c) A long scar is put on her face.
(d) She is being branded on her breasts.

3. Why was the troop Sharpe is now commanding sent there by the person in question #20?
(a) They are being punished by him.
(b) He promised they would when he was drunk.
(c) He wants them out of the way.
(d) It is his pet project.

4. What type of troop is Sharpe put in command?
(a) Rocket artillery.
(b) A rifle company.
(c) An infantry regiment.
(d) The scouts and sharpshooters.

5. What does the rocket battalion have that Sharpe needs?
(a) Mules.
(b) Wagons.
(c) More men.
(d) Cannon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nairn order Sharpe to do in Chapter 3?

2. In what direction from the mountain pass is Andrados located?

3. Why did the Peer choose Frenada as winter headquarters?

4. With whom is Spain at war during this novel?

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

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