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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5, 6, and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What has been happening to the men who have been recruited for the second battalion?
(a) They have been discharged because they weren't needed.
(b) They are being shipped individually to France.
(c) They are being sent to other battalions.
(d) They have not shown up at the depot.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sharpe decide to let his enemies think?

3. What does Sharpe trust to Maggie?

4. Who are Weller and Marriott?

5. With whom does Sharpe have a discussion about his regiment?

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