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

2. What is Sharpe told is the estimated number of men that Pot-au-Feu has with him?
(a) 150 to 1000.
(b) 1000 to 2000.
(c) 700 to 1500.
(d) 400 to 2000.

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

4. What happens as the British forces are scrambling over the castle's outer walls?
(a) The defenders shoot at the attackers.
(b) Sharpe blows up the gunpowder around the wall.
(c) A series of mines erupt.
(d) Josefina and Dubreton's wife escape.

5. What does Sharpe discover about Hakeswill after the convent is secured?
(a) He is in one of the holding cells.
(b) He is dead.
(c) He was never there.
(d) He has escaped.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is the army that captures Andrados in the Prologue comprised?

2. What do Sharpe and Harper look at when surveying the convent?

3. What does the Chaplain General ask Nairn to do?

4. Why doesn't Lord Farthingdale marry Josefina?

5. What does Josefina tell Sharpe about Lord Farthingdale and how he feels about her?

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