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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5, 6, and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe think of the recent battle?
(a) Sharpe express no opinion about it.
(b) It gives them a great advantage over the French.
(c) It was essential to winning the war against Napoleon.
(d) It is strategically insignificant and tactically pointless.

2. Who does Maggie Joyce send after Sharpe?
(a) A young boy.
(b) A young girl.
(c) A bouncer.
(d) An assassin.

3. What did the owner of the bar teach Sharpe?
(a) How to spot a card cheat.
(b) How to survive on the streets.
(c) How to read.
(d) How to play whist.

4. How many of the second battalion does Sharpe find?
(a) Three officers and a few enlisted men.
(b) All 1,000 of the men.
(c) None.
(d) About half of the battalion.

5. What does one of the men following Sharpe tell him?
(a) That he was hired by Sharpe's ex-wife to kill him.
(b) That he was supposed to just follow Sharpe.
(c) That he was hired by a soldier to kill Sharpe.
(d) The man refuses to talk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is odd about Chelmsford?

2. Where is the second battalion of Sharpe's regiment?

3. What has been happening to the men who have been recruited for the second battalion?

4. Where does Harper go after the play?

5. Where is the opening set?

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