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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: pages 9-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe keep in his room for medicinal purposes?
(a) Three bottles of whiskey.
(b) Several bottles of laudanum.
(c) 24 bottles of wine.
(d) Three bottles of scotch.

2. When was "Sharpe's Skirmish" first written?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1898.
(c) 2008.
(d) 1958.

3. Who is nicknamed La Aguja?
(a) A man Sharpe's company captures near the river.
(b) One of the men found hiding in the barn.
(c) Sergeant Harper.
(d) The beautiful woman riding towards the fort.

4. What does Sharpe have disposed of, found in the fort?
(a) Bad artillery rounds.
(b) A few gallons of poison.
(c) Spoiled wheat.
(d) The wine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one thing that makes Tubbs happy about their arrival at this fort?

2. What does Sharpe doubt?

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

4. With whom does Major Tubbs have to work?

5. What does Sharpe say he did not see?

(see the answer key)

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