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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18 and Historical Note.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vivar say will defeat the French in Spain?
(a) The French need the Spanish to feed them.
(b) Napoleon is going to die young.
(c) The Spanish have a better army.
(d) There are too many hiding places for guerrillas.

2. What does the French colonel say the French will allow?
(a) The townspeople to leave.
(b) Vivar to have his ceremony.
(c) The Spanish to have the palace.
(d) The Spanish volunteers to go free.

3. What does Vivar tell Sharpe the strongbox contains?
(a) Gold.
(b) Money.
(c) Papers.
(d) Jewels.

4. 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 Shapre would free Harper.
(c) To help Vivar save the strongbox.
(d) So that they could loot the French dead.

5. What does Vivar say when Sharpe asks for explanations of what they are doing?
(a) He tells him about the strongbox.
(b) He says he will talk later.
(c) He tells him he doesn't have the need to know.
(d) Vivar says he can't tell Sharpe anything until the next week.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the French plan to get close to the farmhouse?

2. What does Sharpe order Williams to do at the beginning of Chapter 2?

3. Who does Sharpe see outside the city?

4. What does the French negotiator tell Sharpe about the French army?

5. What is wrong when the riflemen arrive?

(see the answer key)

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