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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 does Price say about Teresa?
(a) She is worth staring at.
(b) She is a hot-blooded Spanish lady and Hicky may lose something valuable.
(c) She is 100 percent loyal to Sharpe.
(d) Nothing.

2. Why does Napoleon send Ducos to Spain?
(a) The French armies are losing there.
(b) To report about the possible treaty the King of Spain is negotiating with the English.
(c) To take command of the Spanihs forces.
(d) To get Ducos away from Ducos' support base.

3. Who does Tubbs think are French soldiers?
(a) Several men hiding in a barn near the fort.
(b) Some of the men pretending to be farmers in the area.
(c) An unfriendly looking group of horsemen.
(d) A group of men found hiding in some caves.

4. Why does Sharpe have his men marching on recon?
(a) So the dust from the marching will fool the French into thinking the British have left.
(b) So they do not get slack in their duties.
(c) To forage for food.
(d) So the French will think Sharpe has a much bigger force than he does.

5. Who does Ducos ask for help?
(a) Soult.
(b) Sharpe.
(c) Marmont.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe keep in his room for medicinal purposes?

2. Who has accompanied Sharpe to the fort?

3. In what country did Sharpe serve when he was younger?

4. Who goes in search of the French?

5. Of what does Tubbs take possession?

(see the answer key)

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