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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprises Sharpe when they arrive at their mission site?
(a) How run down the fort looks.
(b) How hot the weather is for December.
(c) The number o Marines that are there.
(d) The few number of French on the walls of Teste de Buch.

2. What do they do with Harper after he pulls his tooth?
(a) Make him lie down.
(b) Give him whiskey to drink.
(c) Put him in a hand cart.
(d) Put him on a stretcher.

3. What do the French want Bampfylde to do?
(a) Come after Sharpe.
(b) Hunker down in the fort.
(c) March up the coast.
(d) Abandon Teste de Buch.

4. What does a group of the British see a few hours before Sharpe's mission?
(a) A small French boat sink in the river.
(b) The French make a raid on British shipping.
(c) Sharpe dancing with his wife.
(d) Sharpe and his friend shoot a French spy.

5. Who lands as the Marines march away?
(a) Winger's calvery.
(b) Sharpe's companies.
(c) No one.
(d) The infantry under Duley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sharpe as the Americans to swear?

2. What does Sharpe do when the soldier opens the gate?

3. What is the name of Sharpe's new wife?

4. How does Sharpe feel about hanging men?

5. What do Sharpe's superiors do to free him to lead the invasion force?

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