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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Fourteen and Chapter Fifteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Isabella want from Harper?
(a) Money.
(b) A child.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Transportation to England.

2. Why does Harper worry about Sharpe?
(a) That he is attacking a holy place.
(b) That he has only Angel to protect him.
(c) That he is so close to the Spanish.
(d) That he won't find La Marquesa.

3. What causes El Matarife and the Partisans to run?
(a) The rumor of the British arriving.
(b) French lancers rushing into the village.
(c) Sharpe wounding El Matarife.
(d) An explosion of their gunpowder stores.

4. Why does Sharpe remain a guarded prisoner?
(a) He has been identified as Richard Sharpe and they fear him.
(b) He will not offer his parole.
(c) He has tried to escape several times and broke his parole.
(d) He wants to spy on the General longer.

5. How does Wellington feel about Sharpe's execution?
(a) He doesn't know about it.
(b) Very upset.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does Lt. Colonel Leroy hold in the South Essex Battalion?

2. Who in Burgos knows Sharpe's true identity?

3. Why does Sharpe not like the idea of a prisoner exchange?

4. Why can't the Spanish observers see the prisoner being hung?

5. How does Helene appear to Sharpe?

(see the answer key)

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