View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: page 57-63.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Sharpe feeling at the coming of the dawn?
(a) Optimistic.
(b) Weary and foolish.
(c) Angry.
(d) Vindicated.

2. What does Ducos lack?
(a) An agressive nature.
(b) Pity and mercy.
(c) Enough food to feed his men for more than 2 days.
(d) A conscience.

3. What does Sharpe admit to Teresa?
(a) That he had an affair while she was gone.
(b) That he still has faith in his intuition that the French are out there.
(c) That he loved her from the first time he saw her.
(d) That he may have overreacted.

4. What is part of the inferno raging in the fort that Sharpe could have used?
(a) Large artillery shells.
(b) The reserve muskets.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Timbers.

5. What does the narrator say Major Pierre Ducos is not?
(a) A major or civilian.
(b) Brave.
(c) A coward.
(d) Dishonorable.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Tubbs take possession?

2. Why does Napoleon send Ducos to Spain?

3. What does Sharpe order the redcoats to do?

4. With whom does Major Tubbs have to work?

5. What has Pailleterie given his men before?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 252 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample