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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 is Captain Michel Pailleterie?
(a) The officer who Major Tubbs consults about the muskets.
(b) The officer Herault sends ahead.
(c) The Captain of one of the companies under Sharpe.
(d) The company commander of the light artillery with the Duke of Wellington.

2. What does Sharpe believe the French want the British to think?
(a) That the French are coming to San Miguel.
(b) That the French are not even in Spain.
(c) That the French are going to Avila.
(d) That the French are coming to Santos Cristophos.

3. What does Herault now command?
(a) The North Army's horsemen.
(b) The South Army's horsemen.
(c) The South Army's infantry.
(d) The South Army's heavy artillery.

4. What would happen if the French retake Salamanca?
(a) It will cut the Duke of Wellington's forces off from their supplies.
(b) The English would have to fall back to Madrid.
(c) The French would have a staging ground to retake the southeastern edge of France.
(d) The English would have to retreat into Germany.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harper admit to Sharpe?

2. What is Major Ducos' position?

3. Where does the General lead a charge that destroys a British battalion?

4. What does the narrator say in the introduction about the first version of "Sharpe's Skirmish"?

5. Of what does Tubbs take possession?

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