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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: pages 38-47.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who goes in search of the French?
(a) Some of the local militia.
(b) Major Tubbs and some of his Battalion.
(c) Lieutenant Price and some of Sharpe's company.
(d) No one, since the French are quite far from the fort.

2. What does Major Tubbs suggest that Sharpe declines to do?
(a) Send Teresa and her men to Avila.
(b) Bring the Spanish peasants inside to fort for protection.
(c) Warn Salamanca that the French are coming.
(d) Send Harper to warn Wellington.

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

4. What is the name of the group of soldiers who accompany Pailleterie?
(a) Kurkas.
(b) Raiders.
(c) Hessians.
(d) Hussers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sharpe trying to accomplish at the bridge?

2. What has Pailleterie given his men before?

3. What flies high above Tormes?

4. Where does Herault think the biggest danger to his men lies?

5. Who is General Jean Herault?

(see the answer key)

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