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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Baird do when Sharpe starts to cry?
(a) Pats him on the shoulder to console him.
(b) Gives him a whiskey.
(c) Slaps him.
(d) Tells him to stop.

2. 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.

3. Why is Baird in a foul mood the next morning?
(a) The King wants Baird's army to return to India in two weeks.
(b) His wife was mad at him.
(c) Hangover.
(d) The Duke of Wellington upbraids him for a protocol error.

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

5. What does Baird want Sharpe to do?
(a) Go to India on an espionage mission.
(b) Take two weeks leave and think over his desire to leave the army.
(c) Spy on another captain suspected of treason.
(d) Go to Copenhagen with a British agent and protect the agent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pumphrey give Sharpe?

2. What does Baird say will ensure Sharpe of advancement?

3. What happened to Grace?

4. What is the Danish Crown Prince preparing to do?

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

(see the answer key)

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