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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Father Hacha tell the Marques about the outcome of the duel?
(a) That it was a draw.
(b) That the general won.
(c) That Sharpe won.
(d) That Sharpe surrendered.

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

3. What do Sharpe and Helene stop to retrieve as they leave the convent?
(a) Helene's jewelry.
(b) Helene's husband's will.
(c) Helene's small pistol.
(d) Helene's clothes.

4. What does the court deny Sharpe in his request about being hung?
(a) He can be shoot with a firing squad.
(b) He can wear his green jacket.
(c) He can have an appeal.
(d) He can commit suicide.

5. What does Sharpe notice Helene has?
(a) Fleas.
(b) Scabies.
(c) Lice.
(d) A severe skin rash.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does La Marquesa admit?

2. Why is Helene moving her fortune to France?

3. About what does Helene boast to Ducos?

4. What does Hacha think will happen to Spain because of the Sharpe incident?

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

(see the answer key)

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