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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12, 13, and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Harper and Sharpe do later that night?
(a) Leave the city.
(b) Sleep off their liquor.
(c) Go looking for who hired the men that followed Sharpe.
(d) Go pay a visit to Lord Fenner.

2. What does Nairn think Sharpe should do?
(a) Retire.
(b) Accept a position as army liaision to Admiral Nelson.
(c) Investigate the second battalion.
(d) Accept a position as aide de camp to Wellington.

3. What does Sharpe do for a diversion?
(a) Shoots out the windows of Girdwood's home.
(b) Kidnaps Jane.
(c) Starts a huge fire.
(d) Gets the men to line up in attack formation.

4. Why does Sharpe note about the medical certification of the recruits?
(a) It is very lax.
(b) It is not done by the recruiting doctor, but rather by his assistant.
(c) It is not done by a magistrate.
(d) It is very rigorous.

5. Why does a crowd gather at the end of the play?
(a) To pay homage to the king, who has made an appearance.
(b) To greet the Prince of Orange.
(c) To acknowledge Sharpe and Harper's attendance.
(d) To greet the Prince of Wales.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lieutenant Colonel Girdwood?

2. What does the person that Maggie Joyce sends give Sharpe?

3. What does Harper do?

4. What happens when Marriott speaks up about the dog?

5. Why are Sharpe and Harper visiting small English towns?

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