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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2, 3, and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Chelmsford?
(a) Where Sharpe is born.
(b) Where the last major battle of the Napoleonic War is fought.
(c) Where Patrick Harper was born.
(d) The depot of the second battalion.

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

4. What does Nairn suggest that outrages Sharpe?
(a) That the men of the first battalion be dispersed.
(b) That Sharpe's men were playing it safe in the last battle.
(c) That Sharpe's men be given early releases and the unit disbanded.
(d) That Sharpe become a spy in Paris.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the month and year at the opening of Sharpe's Regiment?

2. What does Nairn think Sharpe should do?

3. Who does Sharpe encounter after speaking with Carline?

4. What does Sharpe trust to Maggie?

5. What has been happening to the men who have been recruited for the second battalion?

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