View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vivar want the riflemen to do which is a change in plans?
(a) To charge past a guardhouse and not engage the enemy.
(b) To shoot from the hills.
(c) To take the gatehouse and set up snipers.
(d) To go directly to the palace.

2. Who does Sharpe meet with in the French troops?
(a) Major Plume la Tieri.
(b) Colonel de l'Eclin.
(c) Colonel de le'Tousi.
(d) Captain Blaize.

3. Who recognizes Sharpe when he enters the palace?
(a) The Count of Mouromorto.
(b) Captain Bouises.
(c) Major Phillipe de Courseli.
(d) Colonel de l'Eclin.

4. How does the battle between the riflemen and the first group of French work out?
(a) The riflemen run.
(b) The French run.
(c) Sharpe takes all the French prisoner.
(d) The riflemen win.

5. What does Vivar say will defeat the French in Spain?
(a) The Spanish have a better army.
(b) The French need the Spanish to feed them.
(c) Napoleon is going to die young.
(d) There are too many hiding places for guerrillas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sharpe's men do when he assembles them in the morning?

2. What does Sharpe do when Harper thinks Sharpe has agreed with the men?

3. What is the weather like when the troops of Sharpe and Vivar set off?

4. What does Vivar think is de l'Eclin's strong point in fighting a battle?

5. What does Vivar say when Sharpe asks for explanations of what they are doing?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 319 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample