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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: pages 38-47.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will the plan do if it succeeds?
(a) Save Madrid.
(b) Get the troops to Marmont faster.
(c) Perpetuate the least amount of casualties.
(d) Deal a detestation blow to Wellington's forces.

2. What medicine does Harper offer Sharpe?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Wine.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Laudenum.

3. What does Sharpe see is lost?
(a) The town of San Miguel.
(b) The bridge.
(c) The farmhouse where Harper is hiding.
(d) The fort.

4. Why would she go there?
(a) To visit her infant daughter.
(b) To recruit more men to the rebel cause.
(c) To visit her ill grandmother.
(d) To visit her ill brother.

5. Who is Lieutenant Price?
(a) An officer under Major Tubbs' command.
(b) A corrupt commisary officer.
(c) A British officer turned traitor.
(d) An officer under Sharpe's command.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will add a page to Soult's page of glory?

2. What is sacrificed at Avila?

3. What is Major Ducos' position?

4. When was "Sharpe's Skirmish" first written?

5. Why doesn't Sharpe want to do what Major Tubbs suggests?

(see the answer key)

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