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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Lavisser and a woman do as Sharpe comes into the room where they are torturing Skovaard?
(a) Take Astrid as hostage.
(b) Jump out the window.
(c) Yell for more of their guards.
(d) Charge Sharpe.

2. Who brandishes a knife at Sharpe?
(a) A childhood friend.
(b) A young woman.
(c) A dog owner.
(d) A drunken sailor.

3. What do the Danish soldiers in a castle prepare?
(a) Explosive bombs.
(b) A receiving pavilion.
(c) Hot oil.
(d) Heat shot.

4. What happens to Jens on the way to do what Sharpe asked of him?
(a) He is wounded.
(b) He decides to just go back to his ship.
(c) He is killed.
(d) He is captured and taken to the Danish rebel forces.

5. What does Sharpe do as he is riding in the hay wagon?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Plotting revenge against Pumphrey.
(c) Making plans to retrieve the gold.
(d) Plotting revenge against Lavisser.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the ships do as they approach the fort?

2. What nationality does Sharpe claim to be?

3. Where is Astrid?

4. What does Sharpe tell Hocking before Sharpe kills the man?

5. How does Sharpe throw off Hocking's bodyguards in the hallway?

(see the answer key)

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