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

2. What kind of weapon does Sharpe find in the basement?
(a) A Turner rifle.
(b) Gunpowder.
(c) A cannon.
(d) A mine.

3. Where does Sharpe go at the beginning of Chapter 1 to get out of the cold?
(a) Officers mess.
(b) The church.
(c) Headquarters mess.
(d) Enlisted mess.

4. What does Sharpe urge to Farthingdale?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Caution and restraint.
(c) To attack the castle.
(d) To stay in the proximity of the convent.

5. Why does the Colonel keep Lady Farthingdale safe?
(a) She bribes him with money.
(b) He doesn't believe in harming civilians.
(c) So he can have her to himself.
(d) To be used as a hostage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe do with Pot-au-Fea?

2. What does Farthingdale wonder about the French?

3. What type of terrain does Sharpe have to cross to get to Andrados?

4. Why doesn't Lord Farthingdale marry Josefina?

5. What does General Nairn use to toast his bread?

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