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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 does Harper insist about his men?
(a) They are the best sharpshooters in the British army.
(b) They know better than to get drunk.
(c) They think Sharpe can do no wrong.
(d) They are in sore need of some leave time.

2. What grabs Sharpe's attention as he and Teresa are talking?
(a) The sound of canons.
(b) A shout from the bridge.
(c) An explosion from inside the fort.
(d) The sound of a horse screaming.

3. What is Major Ducos' position?
(a) Advisor to Cornwallis.
(b) Commander of the Dragoons.
(c) The man in charge of logistics for Tubb's battalion.
(d) A functionary for the Emperor.

4. Why does Napoleon send Ducos to Spain?
(a) To get Ducos away from Ducos' support base.
(b) To report about the possible treaty the King of Spain is negotiating with the English.
(c) The French armies are losing there.
(d) To take command of the Spanihs forces.

5. Who is MacKeon?
(a) A soldier who knew Sharpe in Campbell's 96th.
(b) A rebel in the Spanish forces.
(c) Ducos' second in command.
(d) Teresa's second in command.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe see is lost?

2. Why has Sharpe made everyone else nervous?

3. What is Sharpe trying to accomplish at the bridge?

4. What is Teresa doing as Price's men fire their rifles?

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

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