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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Brown and Belling explain to Sharpe about his commission?
(a) Sharpe cannot sell it.
(b) It is provisional.
(c) It can be passed on to Sharpe's son if and when Sharpe has a son.
(d) It expires in two years.

2. What happens when Sharpe and Bang pass through the city gates?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The guards search Bang carefully but not Sharpe.
(c) The guards search Sharpe carefully but not Bang.
(d) They are detained for several hours.

3. What does Lavisser say to Willsen?
(a) That Willsen's father was an embarrassment in Copenhagen.
(b) That Willsen would be an embarrassment in Copenhagen.
(c) That Lavisser is actually French.
(d) Nothing.

4. What does Baird say that seems to momentarily shock Lavisser?
(a) Nothing.
(b) That Pumphrey may not come on the mission.
(c) That Sharpe is replacing the deceased Willsen.
(d) That Sharpe is taking Lavisser's place on the mission.

5. Who is Ole Skovaard?
(a) The sailor who gives Sharpe a ride across the harbor.
(b) The name on the paper Pumphrey gives Sharpe.
(c) The farmer who treats Sharpe's wounds.
(d) The leader of the Danish cavalry that is hunting Sharpe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Sharpe say he is seeking?

2. What happened to Grace?

3. What does Sharpe first demand of Hocking before slashing his face?

4. What does Lavisser say that surprises Sharpe?

5. Where does Aksel say Skovaard is?

(see the answer key)

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