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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: pages 19-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Major Ducos' position?
(a) Advisor to Cornwallis.
(b) The man in charge of logistics for Tubb's battalion.
(c) Commander of the Dragoons.
(d) A functionary for the Emperor.

2. With whom does Major Tubbs have to work?
(a) The Duke's nephew.
(b) Spanish and Scot laborers.
(c) Private Harper.
(d) The Duke's son.

3. What does Sharpe notice about the fort?
(a) It is old and fragile.
(b) It should be torn down.
(c) It needs a few patches but is generally stout.
(d) It is quite stalwart.

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

5. Who is Arthur Wellesley?
(a) The commander who is disgraced when he fails to capture the fort several months ago.
(b) The mayor of the town near the fort.
(c) Patrick Harper's good buddy.
(d) The commander responsible for capturing the fort.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Sharpe's men object until Sharpe gets near?

2. What does the narrator say Major Pierre Ducos is not?

3. Why will the British soldiers' work in the Elysian fields be unmolested?

4. Who does Tubbs see riding towards the fort?

5. Who is Major Lucius Tubbs?

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