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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 do the British and Spanish troops discover when they enter a village?
(a) All the men in the village have been killed.
(b) The villagers have fled and left the village empty.
(c) The men in the village have been taken prisoner by the French.
(d) All the villagers have been slaughtered.

2. What does Sharpe order Williams to do at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Form ranks.
(b) Take a squad to scout.
(c) Move the wounded.
(d) Send men out for firewood.

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

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. What does Vivar ask Sharpe to do?
(a) Provide covering fire so he can charge the French.
(b) Sneak behind the French lines.
(c) Leave the fighting to his Cazadores.
(d) Go south to draw the French away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Vivar when his wife died?

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

3. For what does Vivar thank Harper?

4. What does Vivar tell Sharpe about how he deals with military regulations?

5. What does Sharpe do when Captain Murray is hit with a musket round?

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