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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harper suggest they do with the Parker's carriage?
(a) Tip it over to block the road.
(b) Send it barreling into the French cavalry.
(c) Burn it.
(d) Load it with gunpowder and blow it up when the French are by it.

2. Who wakes Sharpe in the night in Chapter 6?
(a) A monk.
(b) Vivar.
(c) Harper.
(d) A soldier.

3. What does Sharpe do to a cavalry horse that reaches him?
(a) Strikes it in the mouth with his sword.
(b) Cuts its front leg in half.
(c) Pulls the rider off and mount it.
(d) Kicks it in the ribs.

4. Who does Sharpe meet in the night?
(a) A Spanish woman.
(b) Vivar's lieutenant.
(c) Harper.
(d) A British woman.

5. What does Sharpe do when Mrs. Parker refuses to leave the carriage?
(a) Tells her husband to push her out.
(b) Cuts the horses loose from the carriage.
(c) Pushes the carriage over with her in it.
(d) Pulls her out of it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the sergeant Williams order the riflemen to do before the second attack of the French?

2. What does Sharpe advise George to do?

3. What does Major Dunnet tell Captain Murray about the lieutenant?

4. What will Vivar's troops do in the morning?

5. What do the lieutenant's clothes look like?

(see the answer key)

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