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

2. Why can't the Marines do the mission Sharpe is assigned?
(a) The Marines are sick with fever.
(b) The Marines are back on the peninsula.
(c) The Marines are going elsewhere.
(d) There are no Marines in the area.

3. Why does Sharpe decline Patrick Harper's volunteering to join the unit?
(a) Harper has a contagious fever.
(b) Harper is not an infantryman.
(c) He doesn't like Harper.
(d) He does not have the authority.

4. What is Maquerre supposed to tell Bampfylde?
(a) Sharpe's men have turned away from the road to Bordeaux.
(b) Sharpe's men have been destroyed.
(c) Sharpe's men have been captured.
(d) Sharpe has been taken prisoner.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sharpe as the Americans to swear?

2. Who does Bampfylde credit in his official report to the Admiralty?

3. What does the Comte de Maquerre do for France?

4. Who suggest the site to which Killick moves his ambush?

5. What do the British decide they need to divert the French from the bridge site?

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