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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 Harper do the night of the battle?
(a) Rallies the men against going south.
(b) Gives Sharpe a formal apology.
(c) Gets drunk.
(d) Challenges Sharpe to a duel.

2. What does Murray believe when he offers Sharpe advice?
(a) They can outwit the French.
(b) Sharpe is a poor officer.
(c) He can give Sharpe aid in adjusting to being an officer.
(d) Murray believes he is about to die.

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

4. How does Sharpe get a telescope?
(a) His brother gives it to him for his birthday.
(b) He receives it for bravery.
(c) He buys it when he is on leave.
(d) His father leaves it to him.

5. What does Williams suggest to Sharpe?
(a) They go east away from the French.
(b) They rescue the prisoners.
(c) They surrender to the French.
(d) They scatter in the woods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the young British woman at the village?

2. What does Williams tell Sharpe is part of the reason the riflemen have fought so hard?

3. In the prologue, where have Vivar and his men taken refuge?

4. What do the British and Spanish troops discover when they enter a village?

5. What does Vivar tell Sharpe the strongbox contains?

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