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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. Who goes in search of the French?
(a) Some of the local militia.
(b) Major Tubbs and some of his Battalion.
(c) Lieutenant Price and some of Sharpe's company.
(d) No one, since the French are quite far from the fort.

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

3. What does the narrator say in the introduction about the first version of "Sharpe's Skirmish"?
(a) It was obvious that it was written in haste.
(b) It was quite superb for the amount of time spent on it.
(c) It had a number of inaccuracies.
(d) He does not say anything about a first version.

4. What happens just after Ducos arrives in Spain?
(a) Marmont's army is destroyed.
(b) Sharpe kills Marmont.
(c) Marmont's army wins a crucial battle.
(d) Soult's army is destroyed.

5. What does Sharpe doubt?
(a) That Tubbs is competent.
(b) That his wife will be happy staying at the fort.
(c) That there are any French soldiers in the area.
(d) That Harper is competent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what direction does Tubbs notice a cloud of dust?

3. What medicine does Harper offer Sharpe?

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

5. What does Sharpe say he did not see?

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