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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 does Herault now command?
(a) The South Army's infantry.
(b) The South Army's horsemen.
(c) The North Army's horsemen.
(d) The South Army's heavy artillery.

2. From what is Sharpe recovering?
(a) Food poisoning.
(b) A bullet wound.
(c) A lack of sleep.
(d) Malaria.

3. Who is Major Lucius Tubbs?
(a) He is the commander of San Miguel.
(b) He commands the 501 Artillery battalion.
(c) He is in charge of rating the muskets at the fort that were left by the French.
(d) He is Sharpe's immediate superior.

4. What enrages Teresa?
(a) That the French have once again intruded upon the Spanish.
(b) The possible destruction of a sacred site.
(c) That Sharpe does not understand her desire to save Avila.
(d) That Sharpe does not seem perturbed that the French are razing the countryside.

5. Who does Sharp yell at for staring at his wife?
(a) Ducos.
(b) Harper.
(c) Tubbs.
(d) Hickey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Coignet raise an alarm?

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

3. Who does Tubbs think are French soldiers?

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

5. About what does Coignet ask Pailleterie?

(see the answer key)

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