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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is chasing Juanita across the plains?
(a) Some of Loup's troops.
(b) No one.
(c) The Spanish cavalry.
(d) The British.

2. How do they know who the man is who saved them?
(a) They never found out.
(b) Loup left the man hanging from a tree.
(c) It was the man assigned to guard that area.
(d) They found the man's tobacco tin.

3. What does Sharpe ask El Castrador to do?
(a) Find out where Loup is located.
(b) Kill and mutilate two deserters.
(c) Get a message to Sharpe's wife.
(d) Join them at San Isidoro.

4. What does Ducos plan to do with the British forces?
(a) Have them take the wrong fortress.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Split them along national lines.
(d) Make them think the Spainish king has abdicated to Napoleon.

5. How many of the Portuguese battalion survived the attack by Loup?
(a) One half.
(b) One third.
(c) Only about one fifth.
(d) About a quarter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the Officers of the Real Compañía Irlandesa were killed or wounded?

2. Of what does Sharpe accuse Loup?

3. Where does Runciman say he spent some time in the army?

4. What is Richard Sharpe and his troops' dilemma at the beginning of the book?

5. How many men desert from the Real Compañía Irlandesa the first night?

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