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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does this novel start?
(a) 1805.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1820.
(d) 1814.

2. What do the British decide they need to divert the French from the bridge site?
(a) Mortar fire behind them.
(b) Lighting a forest fire.
(c) Damming the river and flooding the plain.
(d) A diversionary action.

3. How do Sharpe and Frederickson feel about each other?
(a) They are indifferent to each other.
(b) Sharpe feels uneasy about Frederickson.
(c) Frederickson is distainful of Sharpe.
(d) They like each other immediately.

4. In this war between Napoleon and Europe with whom are the Americans allied?
(a) France.
(b) Russia.
(c) Spain.
(d) Britain.

5. Who does Sharpe visit before leaving on his mission?
(a) Colonel Hogan.
(b) Captain Southerby.
(c) Major Jones.
(d) Colonel Smithwood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Killick do in Chapter One?

2. Why does Sharpe decline Patrick Harper's volunteering to join the unit?

3. What does a group of the British see a few hours before Sharpe's mission?

4. Who leads the naval expedition near Gujan?

5. Of what unit does Sharpe assume command?

(see the answer key)

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