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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sharpe's Christmas p. 38-46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ensign Nicholls tell Sharpe?
(a) The other French are arriving.
(b) General Picard is offering to surrender.
(c) The French are running away.
(d) The French have regrouped near Irita.

2. What happens when some Frenchmen kick over a barrel?
(a) The barrel's staves break and the wine spills.
(b) Nothing.
(c) It explodes.
(d) The wine leaks out.

3. Who is Lucille Castineau?
(a) A new character created in "Sharpe's Memories."
(b) A woman Sharpe accidentally killed in "Sharpe's Revenge."
(c) A woman Sharpe meets in "Sharpe's Revenge."
(d) A new character created for "Sharpe's Christmas."

4. What attack is the French army attempting to repel?
(a) The British attack near Waterloo.
(b) It does not specify.
(c) The British attack on Seringapatam.
(d) The Dutch attack on Gibraltar.

5. Why does Gudin not think the Sharpe he is about to encounter is the same one he met in India?
(a) Few men rise through the rank to become officers in the British army.
(b) The other Sharpe would be in his 70's now.
(c) He saw the other Sharpe killed.
(d) He does not know a Sharpe awaits the French.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what do the two men argue?

2. What does Gudin have to leave behind when a wagon breaks down?

3. Why doesn't Picard call his men back off the slopes?

4. Why won't Gudin ride his horse?

5. What is one question Bernard Cornwell is often asked about Richard Sharpe?

(see the answer key)

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