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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what do Bang and Skovaard become increasingly annoyed?
(a) Barker's demands.
(b) The refusal of the Danes to give the English what they want.
(c) Lassiver's demands.
(d) Sharpe and Astrid's closeness.

2. What does Baird advise Sharpe to do on his next assignment?
(a) Watch for a traitor.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Wear civilian clothes.
(d) Take insect netting.

3. What shocks Sharpe about where he and Astrid visit?
(a) At the variety of good available on the market.
(b) How humane the orphanage is.
(c) At how kind and welcoming her grandmother is.
(d) At the burn scars on Astrid's aunt's face.

4. What does Baird ask about Wellesley?
(a) How he lead his men at Gwghar, India.
(b) Why he promoted Sharpe.
(c) How he died in India.
(d) Why he wrote such a glowing report of a sniveling idiot like Sharpe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lavisser enter the carriage in which Sharpe and Baird are riding?

2. What does the Crown Prince say that Denmark will not do willingly?

3. What does Sharpe fail to convey to Astrid?

4. Under what condition would Astrid be in danger?

5. Why is Baird in a foul mood the next morning?

(see the answer key)

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