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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 Nairn give Sharpe to take to Andrados?
(a) A map for where Hogan is being held prisoner.
(b) A large amount of gold.
(c) A sharpshooter squad to kill Hakeswill.
(d) Four horses.

2. What does the Chaplain General ask Nairn to do?
(a) Set up services for the Methodist.
(b) Keep Methodism in check.
(c) Attend masses for the dead.
(d) Allow the Jewish soldiers to rest on Saturday.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was left in the town of Andrados due to a provisioning error?

2. What kind of evidence is around the town?

3. What does the person from question #14 say first to Sharpe?

4. What is wrong physically with General Nairn at the beginning of the book?

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

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