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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Sharpe's regiment?
(a) The 95th Rifles.
(b) The 62nd Battalion.
(c) The South Essex Regiment.
(d) The South London Regiment.

2. What is the name of Sharpe's company?
(a) The Heavy Company.
(b) The People's Company.
(c) The Common Company.
(d) The Light Company.

3. Why does Sharpe think there will be no fighting between the French and the British in Chapter Six?
(a) It would not be avantageous to either side.
(b) They are just parading their wares to each other.
(c) Both sides are too tired.
(d) The French are cowards.

4. To which member of his family does Simmerson say he will write?
(a) His father.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His cousin.
(d) His brother.

5. Simmerson tells Sharpe he comes from where?
(a) The gutter.
(b) The orphanage.
(c) The sewers.
(d) A common home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wellesey say people think he is running instead of an army?

2. Whose footbeats ring on the flagstones at the beginning of Chapter Eleven?

3. With what does Sharpe promise Lennox he would replace the regiments lost colors?

4. Wellesey is wise in the ways of what?

5. What does Simmerson say will happen to sixty men at 6pm?

(see the answer key)

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