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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. How many muskets does a priest discover at the fort?
(a) Almost 1,000.
(b) About 500.
(c) About 15,000.
(d) Almost 5,000.

2. What does Harper think about Sharpe's order?
(a) Sharpe is being unreasonable.
(b) Sharpe is never wrong, so Harper takes him seriously.
(c) Sharpe has the shakes from his bullet wound.
(d) Sharpe is the one who needs sleep.

3. Who is Lieutenant Price?
(a) A British officer turned traitor.
(b) A corrupt commisary officer.
(c) An officer under Major Tubbs' command.
(d) An officer under Sharpe's command.

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

5. What does Sharpe tell Harper to do?
(a) Get some sleep.
(b) Get the wine away from his men.
(c) Be on the lookout for anything to happen.
(d) Double the guard on the fort walls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What medicine does Harper offer Sharpe?

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

3. With what book was "Sharpe's Skirmish" supposed to be given away?

4. Where has Sharpe arrived?

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

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