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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Williams tell Sharpe is part of the reason the riflemen have fought so hard?
(a) So they do not have to march to Lisbon.
(b) So that they could loot the French dead.
(c) To help Vivar save the strongbox.
(d) So that Shapre would free Harper.

3. What do the French do when they see Sharpe and his men?
(a) Send a small advance party.
(b) Charge the British.
(c) Form into a cavalry square.
(d) Wave a parley flag.

4. Where do the riflemen go when they leave the farmhouse?
(a) North on the road.
(b) The go behind the barn.
(c) They go behind the French troops.
(d) They go into the woods.

5. Who, of the men chasing Vivar, knows the contents of the strongbox and where Vivar is going with it?
(a) Captain Murray.
(b) The man in the black coat and white boots.
(c) Richard Sharpe.
(d) Colonel Pierre de l'Eclin

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the man in the black coat and white boots say to Sharpe?

3. What does Vivar say the Spanish people need?

4. Who does Vivar tell Sharpe is coming to the fortress?

5. What happens to Major Dunnet during the battle with the French?

(see the answer key)

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