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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the British do after launching exploding bombs?
(a) March on the city.
(b) Wait to see what the Danes do.
(c) Send projectiles designed to start fires.
(d) Send in a letter of truce.

2. What are sailors going to do on the Danish ships?
(a) Cut their moorings loose.
(b) Hide a spy.
(c) Burn them.
(d) Disarm the incendiary devices.

3. With what is Skovaard getting annoyed?
(a) Sharpe's insistence that Lavisser is a French agent.
(b) Sharpe's insistence that they are in danger.
(c) The behavior of the Crown Prince.
(d) Sharpe's accompanying them.

4. Why is Chase not going on the mission?
(a) He is the only one who knows the codes of retrieval.
(b) He has to be able to speak to the Danish spies.
(c) He has a peg leg can cannot move fast enough.
(d) The admiral says he is too valuable to risk losing.

5. When does Baird want Sharpe to do what he has asked?
(a) In a month or two after special training.
(b) Sharpe has said absolutely not to Baird's request.
(c) In a few days.
(d) Starting the next morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shocks Sharpe about where he and Astrid visit?

2. What does Pumphrey give Sharpe?

3. What surprises the British sailors on their way to the Danish fleet?

4. What does Sharpe fail to convey to Astrid?

5. What has Baird heard about Sharpe?

(see the answer key)

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