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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Angel worried about attacking the convent?
(a) There are no soldiers there.
(b) His sister had been at a convent.
(c) It is a holy place.
(d) It is all women.

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

3. Why was Sharpe's execution staged?
(a) Politics.
(b) To set Sharpe up for spying.
(c) To get another man hung.
(d) To please Helene.

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

5. For what did Ducos use Helene in the past?
(a) To help him advance.
(b) Spying.
(c) To murder English soldiers.
(d) As an escort.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Wellington have a special connection with Sharpe?

2. Why does an English sergeant jerk on the prisoner's legs?

3. Why does Sharpe write a letter to Major Hogan?

4. About what does Leroy confront Sharpe?

5. What does Sharpe do against the French in Chapter 1?

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