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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: pages 38-47.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What medicine does Harper offer Sharpe?
(a) Laudenum.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Wine.
(d) Whiskey.

2. 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.

3. What does Harper admit to Sharpe?
(a) He has always been in love with Teresa.
(b) He may not have smashed as much as the wine as Sharpe ordered.
(c) He is getting out of the Army as soon as Napoleon is defeated.
(d) He is getting married when he returns to England.

4. What does Teresa suggest Sharpe have Hickey do?
(a) Retreat with the civilians since he is wounded.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Write a request for reinforcements.
(d) Send out scouts towards Avila.

5. What does Sharpe have Harper do?
(a) Take some men to help the Duke of Wellington.
(b) Try to stall Teresa and her men from leaving.
(c) Set up Tubb's oxcart on the bridge.
(d) Have Harper's men dig trenches on the far side of the bridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Major Tubbs have to work?

2. What does Herault now command?

3. What does Sharpe keep in his room for medicinal purposes?

4. What does Teresa wave at Sharpe?

5. What grabs Sharpe's attention as he and Teresa are talking?

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