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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summary for Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ducos want to do with Spain?
(a) Become the King of Spain.
(b) Hand it over to Napoleon.
(c) Decimate it.
(d) Keep out from under the French.

2. How much help is Sergeant Harper to Sharpe?
(a) Little.
(b) He is a great help.
(c) He kills the French officer.
(d) None.

3. What is Richard Sharpe and his troops' dilemma at the beginning of the book?
(a) They are lost.
(b) They have no ammunition.
(c) They are surrounded.
(d) They have no food.

4. What are the two keys of Spain, according to the French?
(a) Controlling the coast and Almeida.
(b) Killing the king and burning Madrid.
(c) Almeida and Badajoz.
(d) Badajoz and Ciudad Rodrigo.

5. What makes Sharpe change his mind about ignoring the small settlement below them?
(a) To see if he can find out the name of the village.
(b) Hearing a woman scream.
(c) Watching the French leave only fifteen men.
(d) Deciding there might be food there.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is chasing Juanita across the plains?

2. Why does Sharpe call a formation?

3. What does Kiely say is the reason men desert?

4. How did Kiely become the commander of the Real Compañía Irlandesa?

5. What does Sharpe do as Loup is leaving?

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