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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 through 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the two leaders of the Andrados force attempt to do with Sharpe and his companions?
(a) Recruit them.
(b) Kill them.
(c) Shock them.
(d) Get intelligence from them.

2. What does Sharpe think as he watches Farthington's preparations?
(a) Farthingdale should not leave.
(b) It is to noisy outside.
(c) Something is terrible amiss.
(d) There isn't enough food for a Christmas dinner.

3. What does Dubreton's wife say to her husband?
(a) Tells him she loves him.
(b) Nothing she is not allowed to speak.
(c) Tells him she is being raped.
(d) Quotes poetry.

4. Who does Sharpe capture when he first enters Andrados?
(a) Two Frenchmen.
(b) Two of the capturing forces.
(c) Viscount Pierre Duplicios.
(d) Hakeswill.

5. What is wrong physically with General Nairn at the beginning of the book?
(a) He has a cold.
(b) He has a broken arm.
(c) He has the flu.
(d) He has a headache.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lies on either side of the road that runs out of the pass?

2. What happens as the British forces are scrambling over the castle's outer walls?

3. What is being done to a woman with a hot iron?

4. What kind of military leader is Farthingdale?

5. What is Sharpe supposed to do with the troops to which he has been assigned?

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