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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. What does Tubbs not believe?
(a) That Harper and his men can get through to Wellington in time.
(b) That Teresa's Spainish rebels should fight with the British.
(c) That the French are coming.
(d) That the French will destroy Avila.

2. Where does Herault march as night falls?
(a) Back to rejoin Soult.
(b) Back towards Paris.
(c) Across the hills.
(d) Into Avila.

3. What does Harper tell Sharpe about Tubbs?
(a) That Tubbs will sell good muskets on the black market.
(b) That Tubbs is swindling the Spanish peasants.
(c) That Tubbs is for sale to the highest bidder.
(d) That Tubbs is being too cautious.

4. Who is General Jean Herault?
(a) The commander of the French forces dug in near Casa Lomalinda.
(b) The commander of the Navy at Brest waiting for orders to shell the shore.
(c) The commander of the forces Soult sends north.
(d) The commander of Fort Piqueues.

5. What does Sharpe think is almost impossible?
(a) The Spanish regulars would attack their own fortress.
(b) The English could march from Brest to there in two days.
(c) The French could reach the fort.
(d) The French could still be in Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe find when he sneaks to a wall of the fort?

2. What is Herault assigned to capture?

3. What is spreading through the Spanish countryside?

4. What does Teresa suggest Sharpe have Hickey do?

5. Where does the General lead a charge that destroys a British battalion?

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