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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: pages 28-38.

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) No one, since the French are quite far from the fort.
(d) Lieutenant Price and some of Sharpe's company.

2. What motivated Teresa to becomes a soldier?
(a) Because the French will not allow Spain to be independent even if Spain fights for them.
(b) The French killed her family.
(c) The French killed her young son.
(d) The French captured her father and brothers and they are in prison.

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

4. What is spreading through the Spanish countryside?
(a) Malaria.
(b) News of a large French army headed to San Miguel.
(c) Cholera.
(d) News of the French column headed to Avila.

5. Why is Ducos' opinion important?
(a) He is influential with the common French people.
(b) He has Napoleon's ear.
(c) He is quite wealthy.
(d) His father is Napoleon's cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe believe the French want the British to think?

2. Through what town does Herault ride?

3. What does Sharpe have disposed of, found in the fort?

4. Who is General Jean Herault?

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

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