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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. With what does Pailleterie threaten his men if they make noise?
(a) A whipping.
(b) Dismissal from the military.
(c) Death.
(d) Nothing.

2. About what is Sharpe upset?
(a) Teresa riding off alone.
(b) Losing the fort.
(c) Pailleterie hanging one of Sharpe's men who was captured.
(d) Harper's men being overwhelmed.

3. Who does Sharpe push into the water?
(a) Pailleterie.
(b) Tubbs.
(c) Herault.
(d) Coignet.

4. What is one thing that makes Tubbs happy about their arrival at this fort?
(a) The men have been given three days leave.
(b) The captured French are cooperating.
(c) There is fine wine in the fort.
(d) The Duke has returned to England.

5. Where does Sharpe sneak?
(a) A small place between the storeroom ceiling and the floor above.
(b) To the farmhouse where Harper is holed up.
(c) To try to get his horse out of the fort stable.
(d) To the fort commander's office.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Tubbs take possession?

2. Who is Captain Michel Pailleterie?

3. What would happen if the French retake Salamanca?

4. Why is Sharpe filled with fury?

5. Why would she go there?

(see the answer key)

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