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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18 through 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe begin to do after the French are spotted?
(a) Put sharpshooters on the walls.
(b) Prepare to withdraw.
(c) Prepare static defenses.
(d) Set up an offense plan.

2. What does Sharpe do with the convent?
(a) He spreads gunpowder around it.
(b) Fortify it for defense.
(c) Decide to leave it.
(d) He doesn't do anything with it.

3. For what does Sharpe plan to use the trench in front of the castle?
(a) To stop the French infantry long enough to kill them with an avalanche.
(b) His rocket artillery.
(c) To stop the French cavalry.
(d) To fill with burning oil.

4. How does the French feel about the British defense of the castle?
(a) Confident.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Surprised.
(d) Fearful.

5. What does Sharpe urge to Farthingdale?
(a) To attack the castle.
(b) To stay in the proximity of the convent.
(c) Caution and restraint.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lady Farthingdale in reality?

2. Why doesn't Lord Farthingdale marry Josefina?

3. What do the two leaders of the Andrados force attempt to do with Sharpe and his companions?

4. What does Dubreton do when he comes up to Sharpe?

5. What is Sharpe told is the estimated number of men that Pot-au-Feu has with him?

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