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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Partisans do?
(a) Shoot Cox.
(b) Pull a sneak attack.
(c) Leave.
(d) Shoot El Catolico.

2. What is the South Essex Regiment of riflemen?
(a) Sharpe's unit.
(b) The unit that Sharpe wants to join.
(c) The unit commanded by the Prince of Orange.
(d) The unit commanded by the Duke of York.

3. Who saved Lawford's life seven years earlier?
(a) Harper.
(b) Sharpe.
(c) Ayres.
(d) Knowles.

4. What does Sharpe say is the cause of the scars on his back?
(a) Torture by the French.
(b) A mountain lion attack.
(c) Liars.
(d) A fall off a cliff.

5. How do the men feel as they are being escorted across the terrain by the Partisans?
(a) Elated that they are about to complete their mission.
(b) Suspicious.
(c) Exhausted.
(d) Like prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Harper's rank?

2. What does Cox agree for Sharpe to do?

3. Why can the commander of the Portuguese not help Sharpe?

4. What does Sharpe find as he is digging in the grave?

5. Who wins a sword fighting duel with Sharpe?

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