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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Major Dunnet tell Captain Murray about the lieutenant?
(a) The lieutenant is a great tactician.
(b) He is not a real officer.
(c) The lieutenant's men won't listen to him.
(d) He is incompetent.

2. What does Sharpe advise Vivar not to do?
(a) A frontal attack.
(b) Take cover in the woods.
(c) Come from the left flank.
(d) Charge the hill from the right flank.

3. What does Sharpe do when Captain Murray is hit with a musket round?
(a) Pick him up.
(b) Kill the French soldier who shot the captain.
(c) Put him on a horse.
(d) Call for a medic.

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

5. Who intervenes when Sharpe and Vivar get into a fight?
(a) A priest.
(b) Williams.
(c) A monk.
(d) Parker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams tell Sharpe that Vivar has told Williams about the strongbox?

2. What does Sharpe learn about the road to Lisbon?

3. Where was Vivar when his wife died?

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

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

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