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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. Why has Sharpe made everyone else nervous?
(a) Because they think he knows more than they do about an impending attack.
(b) No one but Sharpe is jumpy.
(c) Because he is jumpy himself.
(d) Because he is angry about the wine Harper saved.

2. Who goes in search of the French?
(a) No one, since the French are quite far from the fort.
(b) Some of the local militia.
(c) Major Tubbs and some of his Battalion.
(d) Lieutenant Price and some of Sharpe's company.

3. What does Price say about Teresa?
(a) She is 100 percent loyal to Sharpe.
(b) Nothing.
(c) She is worth staring at.
(d) She is a hot-blooded Spanish lady and Hicky may lose something valuable.

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

5. What does Sharpe perceive when he looks down Salamanca Road?
(a) Several horse strays walking down the road.
(b) A lone dog sniffing in the bushes.
(c) All is quiet.
(d) Some shadows that are not cast by trees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Teresa's men do that gives their presence away to Pailleterie?

2. What does Sharpe tell Hickey when it is obvious Hickey is afraid?

3. With what does Pailleterie threaten his men if they make noise?

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

5. What does Pailleterie see going towards San Miguel?

(see the answer key)

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