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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summary Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe find in Juanita's panniers?
(a) Loup's battle plans.
(b) False newspapers.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Sharpe's telescope.

2. Who commanded the gatehouse not be opened during the attack?
(a) Captain Eduardo de la Engiesie.
(b) Lord Kiely.
(c) Juanita de Elia.
(d) Captain Donaju.

3. Why is the open plain a bad place for the British to be?
(a) Artillery can reach them easier.
(b) There is no good hiding places.
(c) A fire could annihilate them.
(d) It opens them up to cavalry attacks.

4. How would Wellington withdraw if he lost at Almeida?
(a) Into the mountains.
(b) Across a narrow bridge spanning a rocky canyon.
(c) He would be caught with the ocean at his back.
(d) Across a deep river.

5. What does Wellington see when overlooking Fuentes de Onoro?
(a) Fuentes de Onoro is a smoking shamble.
(b) He cannot see Fuentes de Onoro from where he sits.
(c) Spanish residents of Fuentes de Onoro fleeing.
(d) The British army setting up there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two keys of Spain, according to the French?

2. What do Sharpe and Harper do after the battle at the village?

3. What do Sharpe and Harper find in other cottages?

4. How does Donaju feel about going to Cadiz?

5. Why would Wellington not march on Badajoz or Cadiz?

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