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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do Girdwood and Simmerson make such an effort to find escaped recruits?
(a) For practice in tracking.
(b) They have paid a lot of money for their training and room and board.
(c) As an example to other recruits.
(d) Because Girdwood and Simmerson are engaged in illegal activities and the recruit might report them.

3. Who eavesdrops on the conversation between Fenner and Lawford?
(a) Anne.
(b) Maggie Joyce.
(c) Jane.
(d) Isabelle.

4. What does Girdwood attempt to do at the first battalion's camp?
(a) Take command.
(b) Hide among the men.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Resign his commission.

5. Where are small detachments sent from time to time?
(a) To join the 2nd regimental sharpshooters.
(b) To join the 10th artillery.
(c) To work on the estate across the bridge.
(d) To France to join the 1st battalion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Prince Regent expected to do in a few days' time?

2. What does the person who is asked about the second battalion say?

3. Whose numbers are seriously depleted after the conflict?

4. What does Girdwood ban from the group hunting Harper?

5. What kind of books does Sharpe look at from Simmerson's estate?

(see the answer key)

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