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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 Sharpe notice about the fort?
(a) It should be torn down.
(b) It needs a few patches but is generally stout.
(c) It is quite stalwart.
(d) It is old and fragile.

2. Where was Sharpe first to cross a wall according to one of the men who are sitting with Sharpe and Teresa?
(a) Gawilghur.
(b) Sandoon.
(c) Fort Gibraltar.
(d) Fort Brest.

3. What medicine does Harper offer Sharpe?
(a) Laudenum.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Wine.

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

5. What does Ducos lack?
(a) Pity and mercy.
(b) Enough food to feed his men for more than 2 days.
(c) A conscience.
(d) An agressive nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will add a page to Soult's page of glory?

2. With whom does Major Tubbs have to work?

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

4. What does the narrator say Major Pierre Ducos is not?

5. Who does the job of disposal?

(see the answer key)

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