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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 Major Kearsey?
(a) Sharpe's contact in Almeida.
(b) Wellington's contact in Brussels.
(c) The head of the Provosts.
(d) Sharpe's contact in Brest.

2. Why does Sharpe have suspicions about Kearsey?
(a) He changes his story several times.
(b) He seems shifty.
(c) Because of Hogan.
(d) He has a strange accent.

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

4. How is Sharpe's morale?
(a) About the same as the others around him.
(b) Not the same as the others around him.
(c) He is despondent and sure the war is lost.
(d) He is happy and completely optimistic not just about the war but about life in general.

5. Who is Ramon?
(a) Harper's best friend besides Sharpe.
(b) A man who knows where the gold is.
(c) A man who is nailed to the wall.
(d) Sharpe's quartermaster.

Short Answer Questions

1. Against what are the French well fortified?

2. Why does Sharpe follow the beautiful woman they just rescued?

3. Who are tied to two horses coming out of town?

4. Who is Cesar Moreno?

5. What does Sharpe worry about on his men's approach to the village?

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