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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. What does Ducos plan to recommend to Napoleon?
(a) Herault.
(b) Segoveria.
(c) Marmont.
(d) No one.

2. What does Sharpe notice about the fort?
(a) It is quite stalwart.
(b) It is old and fragile.
(c) It should be torn down.
(d) It needs a few patches but is generally stout.

3. What does Sharpe have disposed of, found in the fort?
(a) The wine.
(b) Bad artillery rounds.
(c) Spoiled wheat.
(d) A few gallons of poison.

4. What is sacrificed at Avila?
(a) 300 French infantrymen.
(b) 100 French heavy cavalry.
(c) The ability to stike back quickly.
(d) 3,000 British pike men.

5. From what is Sharpe recovering?
(a) A bullet wound.
(b) Food poisoning.
(c) Malaria.
(d) A lack of sleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Herault assigned to capture?

2. What is the main obstacle of Soult's forces that are traveling North?

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

4. Where does Ducos suggest sending 300 men?

5. What is spreading through the Spanish countryside?

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