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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. Who does Teresa say she fights?
(a) Anyone allied with Napoleon.
(b) Whoever she feels like fighting.
(c) Anyone who gives Sharpe a hard time.
(d) Rude men.

2. What does Pailleterie order his men and the prisoners to do?
(a) To smash down the southern wall of the fort.
(b) Gather on to the bridge.
(c) To hold fast.
(d) Gather in the Eastern corner of the fort.

3. Who does Sharpe first talk to at the fort?
(a) Jones.
(b) Harper.
(c) Perkins.
(d) Tubbs.

4. What does Sharpe have Harper do?
(a) Try to stall Teresa and her men from leaving.
(b) Have Harper's men dig trenches on the far side of the bridge.
(c) Take some men to help the Duke of Wellington.
(d) Set up Tubb's oxcart on the bridge.

5. How does Sharpe light the oil?
(a) Fires his pistol into it.
(b) His intention is to make the French slide off the bridge, not to set fire to it.
(c) Harris brings him a lighted taper from a fire in the village.
(d) Uses his flint.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men does Soult send North?

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

3. What does Coignet order?

4. What does Harper insist about his men?

5. What confounds Sharpe as he and his men take the bridge?

(see the answer key)

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