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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 Sharpe tell Hickey when it is obvious Hickey is afraid?
(a) That fear can be a good way to stay alive.
(b) That Ensigns are expendable.
(c) That Sharpe has not lost a battle yet.
(d) That the French could never get through the fort's walls.

2. Who is Arthur Wellesley?
(a) Patrick Harper's good buddy.
(b) The mayor of the town near the fort.
(c) The commander who is disgraced when he fails to capture the fort several months ago.
(d) The commander responsible for capturing the fort.

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

4. To what does Sharpe's men object until Sharpe gets near?
(a) Breaking bottles of good wine.
(b) Following orders from Harper.
(c) Following orders from Tubbs.
(d) Testing live artillery pieces.

5. Who does the job of disposal?
(a) Major Price.
(b) Sergeant Patrick Harper.
(c) Major Tubbs.
(d) Sharpe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Sharpe want to do what Major Tubbs suggests?

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

3. What does Sharpe suggest Teresa have her men do?

4. Where does Sharpe send Harper and twenty riflemen?

5. Who is nicknamed La Aguja?

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