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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 the person that Maggie Joyce sends give Sharpe?
(a) A note from Lord Fenner.
(b) A pistol and a warning.
(c) A sword.
(d) Some money.

2. How is Sharpe when he leaves Maggie Joyce?
(a) Exhausted.
(b) Drunk.
(c) Wound up.
(d) Sick.

3. What accompanies the work parties that go off the island?
(a) Simmerson.
(b) Unusually heavy guard.
(c) Girdwood.
(d) Lynch.

4. What does Sharpe think of the recent battle?
(a) It was essential to winning the war against Napoleon.
(b) Sharpe express no opinion about it.
(c) It gives them a great advantage over the French.
(d) It is strategically insignificant and tactically pointless.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Anne want for her son?

3. Who is Lieutenant Colonel Girdwood?

4. What does a day's worth of recruiting yield?

5. What does Sharpe decide to do?

(see the answer key)

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