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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 is Herault assigned to capture?
(a) The fort at Brazilios.
(b) The bridge at San Miguel de Tormes.
(c) The fort at Santos Carmo.
(d) The bridge at Santos Carmo.

2. What does Teresa suggest Sharpe have Hickey do?
(a) Retreat with the civilians since he is wounded.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Write a request for reinforcements.
(d) Send out scouts towards Avila.

3. What is Sharpe trying to accomplish at the bridge?
(a) Sharpe has no plans for the bridge.
(b) Collapsing it.
(c) Barricading it.
(d) Leaving it open so the French will cross it into an ambush.

4. Where may Teresa go if the French do not arrive?
(a) Salamanca.
(b) Avila.
(c) Paris.
(d) Madrid.

5. What is spreading through the Spanish countryside?
(a) News of a large French army headed to San Miguel.
(b) Cholera.
(c) News of the French column headed to Avila.
(d) Malaria.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the French fool Sharpe?

2. What is Sharpe ordered to do at the fort?

3. What does the narrator say in the introduction about the first version of "Sharpe's Skirmish"?

4. Who is Lieutenant Price?

5. For what does Sharpe know he will be blamed?

(see the answer key)

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