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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 does Lawford want from Fenner?
(a) Money.
(b) A governmental promotion.
(c) Fenner's daughter to marry.
(d) Fenner's son to marry his daughter.

2. What has been determined about the second battalion of which Sharpe is a part?
(a) It will receive a unit citation.
(b) It needs a rotation home.
(c) It is not combat effective.
(d) It needs to release about 10 percent of its men who have fulfilled their contract.

3. What does one of the men following Sharpe tell him?
(a) That he was hired by Sharpe's ex-wife to kill him.
(b) The man refuses to talk.
(c) That he was hired by a soldier to kill Sharpe.
(d) That he was supposed to just follow Sharpe.

4. Who does Sharpe encounter after speaking with Carline?
(a) Jacobs.
(b) Sergeant Carew.
(c) Girdwood.
(d) No one.

5. What is the play about that Sharpe and Harper attend?
(a) The battle of Trafalgar.
(b) The battle at Waterloo.
(c) The battle of Brussels.
(d) The battle of Vitoria.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jane Gibbons?

2. Where do Harper and Sharpe go after several weeks on the island?

3. What is Chelmsford?

4. What seems likely about Sharpe and Jane?

5. Where is the opening set?

(see the answer key)

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