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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can't Sharpe buy anything?
(a) He left his money in England.
(b) He has to have his father's permission.
(c) His wife won't let him.
(d) He is too poor.

2. How does Ducos feel towards Helene?
(a) He is angry at her.
(b) He is indifferent to her.
(c) He hates her.
(d) He loves her.

3. What does Sharpe do against the French in Chapter 1?
(a) Tricks them into an ambush.
(b) Poisons their water supply.
(c) Sends them in the wrong direction.
(d) Blows up their supply train.

4. What does Ducos want Helene to do?
(a) Seduce Sharpe.
(b) Leave her husband.
(c) Accuse Sharpe of ill conduct towards her.
(d) Take a letter to France.

5. How does the prosecutor portray Sharpe?
(a) As a sociopath.
(b) As a weak man.
(c) As a prideful man bent on revenge.
(d) As an immoral man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will happen to the Marques' fortune?

2. Why was the man in question #49 going to be hanged?

3. What arrives at the Sharpe's camp in Chapter 3 that Sharpe believes is unnecessary?

4. What kind of hair does the prisoner being hung have?

5. Why was Sharpe's execution staged?

(see the answer key)

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