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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 will the men Soult sends North do?
(a) Flank Wellington and go after Norththumberland.
(b) March for Paris to try to save it.
(c) Attack Wellington's position.
(d) Attack the Spanish traitors at Casa Lomalinda.

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

3. What does Sharpe think is almost impossible?
(a) The Spanish regulars would attack their own fortress.
(b) The French could still be in Spain.
(c) The French could reach the fort.
(d) The English could march from Brest to there in two days.

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

5. What is Sharpe ordered to do at the fort?
(a) Interrogate the French soldiers taken prisoner.
(b) Destroy anything that would be of use to the French if they return.
(c) Dig entrenchments.
(d) Guard Major Tubbs and Tubbs' men.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Through what town does Herault ride?

3. How many men does Soult send North?

4. With whom does Major Tubbs have to work?

5. Who goes in search of the French?

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