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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 does Sharpe do after leaving the state function?
(a) Meet up with Lt. Col. Girdwood.
(b) Go to sleep.
(c) Have a sexual liaision with a beautiful woman.
(d) Start off to find the 2nd battalion.

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

3. Who is summoned to account for the missing battalion recruits?
(a) No one.
(b) Lord Fenner.
(c) Harper.
(d) Girdwood.

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

5. Who does Maggie Joyce send after Sharpe?
(a) A young girl.
(b) A young boy.
(c) A bouncer.
(d) An assassin.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many men is the second battalion drawing rations?

2. What does Sharpe think of the recent battle?

3. Who is presented as slightly confused but enthusiastic about military matters?

4. What is odd about Chelmsford?

5. What does Harper and Sharpe capture in the battle Sharpe is describing?

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