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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9, 10, and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the soldiers doing while Sharpe surveys the convent?
(a) Eating.
(b) Cleaning their weapons.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Celebrating.

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

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

4. What does Nairn decide about Sharpe's information?
(a) It is too little for any kind of judgment.
(b) The women must be rescued.
(c) Sharpe was incompetent.
(d) There is nothing that can be done.

5. How do the defenders of the castle appear to Sharpe?
(a) Unconcerned.
(b) Angry.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Fearful.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Sharpe go at the beginning of Chapter 1 to get out of the cold?

3. What nationality is General Nairn?

4. What does Sharpe notice about the new weapons under his command?

5. Who summons Captain Sharpe in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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