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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What weapon does Sharpe fire at the Neapolitan soldiers?
(a) The grasshopper.
(b) A sniper rifle.
(c) Artillery.
(d) Harper's seven barrel gun.

2. What does Sharpe learn as he is recovering?
(a) How to paint in watercolors.
(b) Spanish.
(c) French.
(d) How to keep the books on Lucille's estate.

3. Why does Sharpe continue to wear his tattered uniform?
(a) He is superstitious about it.
(b) He left his other set at home.
(c) He can't afford another one.
(d) He is sentimental about it.

4. Who do Sharpe and his group first encounter at Ducos's estate?
(a) Ducos' wife.
(b) The Cardinal.
(c) Ducos' captain.
(d) Attack dogs.

5. Why would the French army have to fight to defend France?
(a) Britain wants to add France to its Empire.
(b) The Moors have invaded France.
(c) The Spainish are invading France and England.
(d) Napoleon refuses the peace terms.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what rule is Bordeaux when Sharpe and Frederickson are there?

2. What is Sharpe's position with Nairn's company?

3. Where are Sharpe and Harper standing at the opening of the novel?

4. Why is the Cardinal protecting Ducos?

5. What do Sharpe and Frederickson decide they should do about the charges against them?

(see the answer key)

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