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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10, 11, and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is in charge of the Teste de Buch?
(a) Commodore LaFayette.
(b) Commodore Sydney LeShant.
(c) Commodore Pletier.
(d) Commodore Henri Lassan.

2. What did Sharpe as the Americans to swear?
(a) Not to aid the French.
(b) To return to America.
(c) Not to fight in any European war.
(d) Not to engage in hostilities against Britain.

3. What type of tactic does Sharpe use on the convoy?
(a) Shooting low to take out the enemies' legs.
(b) Charging the calvery with bayonets.
(c) His men fire then lie prone behind the smoke.
(d) Sending half of his men behind the convoy.

4. Why does Sharpe fear for his troops?
(a) They have to fight all the way to Paris.
(b) He thinks they have picked up the fever.
(c) He remembers Elphinstone's warning.
(d) They are going in first.

5. Who does Bampfylde interrogate?
(a) The American prisoners.
(b) Sharpe.
(c) Lassan.
(d) The French prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is leading the British forces at the beginning of this novel?

2. What does Bampfylde keep looking for back at the beach?

3. Where does Napoleon send fresh troops?

4. Why is the Commodore in charge of Teste de Buch concerned?

5. Who does the soldier at the gate think Harper is?

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