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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: pages 47-57.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Teresa go to Salamanca?
(a) To request reinforcements.
(b) To find the rest of the rebels.
(c) To find her child.
(d) To move her sick father.

2. What does Sharpe order his men to do when he runs back to the village?
(a) Retreat to the farmhouse.
(b) Prepare to storm the fort.
(c) Retreat to the river.
(d) Start setting the fort's timbers on fire.

3. What does Ducos plan to recommend to Napoleon?
(a) No one.
(b) Herault.
(c) Segoveria.
(d) Marmont.

4. What is sacrificed at Avila?
(a) 3,000 British pike men.
(b) The ability to stike back quickly.
(c) 100 French heavy cavalry.
(d) 300 French infantrymen.

5. Why does Napoleon send Ducos to Spain?
(a) To take command of the Spanihs forces.
(b) To get Ducos away from Ducos' support base.
(c) To report about the possible treaty the King of Spain is negotiating with the English.
(d) The French armies are losing there.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ducos want to force the British?

2. What is Sharpe ordered to do at the fort?

3. What does the narrator say in the introduction about the first version of "Sharpe's Skirmish"?

4. What does Harper tell Sharpe about Tubbs?

5. What does Sharpe notice about the fort?

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