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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8, 9, 10, and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Harper do?
(a) Runs.
(b) Goes to ground in the mud.
(c) Climbs a tree.
(d) Refuses to participate.

3. How many of the second battalion does Sharpe find?
(a) None.
(b) About half of the battalion.
(c) All 1,000 of the men.
(d) Three officers and a few enlisted men.

4. Who does Sharpe meet that evening?
(a) The Dowager Queen.
(b) Lucy Basehall.
(c) Anne Camoynes.
(d) Sir Drakeson.

5. What happens just before Sharpe's Regiment opens?
(a) Patrick Harper is gravely wounded.
(b) Napoleon has surrendered.
(c) A combat encounter between the first battalion of the South Essex Regiment and French forces.
(d) Sharpe is gravely wounded.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who serves as a spy for Lord Fenner?

2. What did the owner of the bar teach Sharpe?

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

4. What does Jane say she will leave in the boathouse?

5. Why do Girdwood and Simmerson make such an effort to find escaped recruits?

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