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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 Price say about Teresa?
(a) She is 100 percent loyal to Sharpe.
(b) Nothing.
(c) She is a hot-blooded Spanish lady and Hicky may lose something valuable.
(d) She is worth staring at.

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

3. Who does Teresa say she fights?
(a) Anyone allied with Napoleon.
(b) Anyone who gives Sharpe a hard time.
(c) Rude men.
(d) Whoever she feels like fighting.

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

5. Who does Tubbs see riding towards the fort?
(a) A Russian squad of artillerymen.
(b) A beautiful woman.
(c) A scout for the Dutch troops.
(d) A British Royal messenger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Sharpe arrived?

2. What does Harper tell Sharpe about Tubbs?

3. What motivated Teresa to becomes a soldier?

4. Why does Sharpe order this disposal?

5. Where was Sharpe first to cross a wall according to one of the men who are sitting with Sharpe and Teresa?

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