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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe find out the night after the battle with the French?
(a) The French have left Madrid.
(b) The French have taken Lisbon.
(c) The French have taken Santiago de Compostela.
(d) The Spanish army is only thrity miles away.

2. What do Sharpe and Harper discuss?
(a) That Harper wants to remain a sergeant permanently.
(b) Whether Harper will become a sergeant.
(c) Whether some of the riflemen should be sent to Lisbon immediately.
(d) Whether they should help Vivar.

3. What does the colonel suggest?
(a) That he exchange Louisa for Vivar.
(b) A truce.
(c) A mutual withdrawal from the city.
(d) A duel.

4. What does Sharpe tell the French colonel?
(a) His riflemen will leave within the hour.
(b) He will post snipers over the palace walls.
(c) He will blow up the palace.
(d) He will take all the French as prisoners.

5. What does Williams tell Sharpe that Vivar has told Williams about the strongbox?
(a) It contains precious jewels.
(b) It contains gold.
(c) It is the King's Great Seal.
(d) It has valuable intelligence information.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sharpe's men do when he assembles them in the morning?

2. Who intervenes when Sharpe and Vivar get into a fight?

3. What do the British and Spanish decide to do when they arrive at a village in Chapter 6?

4. What does Sharpe first find inside the strongbox?

5. Who does Sharpe meet in the night?

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