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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Batten?
(a) The man Ayres catches.
(b) The mayor of the town the regiment is marching through.
(c) A good friend of Lieutenant Ayres.
(d) A friend of Sharpe's who arrives to give Sharpe new orders.

2. How is Kearsey killed?
(a) He is surrounded by a regiment of Polish lancers and stabbed by several of them
(b) He is shot by a French sharpshooter.
(c) He is not killed by rather captured.
(d) He breaks his neck when he falls off his horse.

3. Who is Cox?
(a) The head of the Provosts in Peauqot.
(b) The English commander at Almeida.
(c) The English commander at Brest.
(d) The English commander at Brussels.

4. Why is Sharpe pleased?
(a) Because Kearsey is not chained in an obscure location.
(b) Because Harper has an excellent plan to rescue Kearsey.
(c) Because El Catolico asks for a meeting.
(d) Because Teresa is in the village.

5. Who are tied to two horses coming out of town?
(a) Naked French soldiers.
(b) No one.
(c) Two naked Spanish peasants.
(d) Two women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is most of the ammunition stored in Almeida?

2. How is the morale of the forces aligned against Napoleon?

3. Why does Sharpe have his men make as much noise as possible?

4. Who is Lieutenant Colonel William Lawford?

5. How does Teresa distract the Polish lancers?

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