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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: pages 47-57.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harper think about Sharpe's order?
(a) Sharpe is being unreasonable.
(b) Sharpe is the one who needs sleep.
(c) Sharpe has the shakes from his bullet wound.
(d) Sharpe is never wrong, so Harper takes him seriously.

2. What does Harper tell Sharpe about Tubbs?
(a) That Tubbs is for sale to the highest bidder.
(b) That Tubbs is swindling the Spanish peasants.
(c) That Tubbs will sell good muskets on the black market.
(d) That Tubbs is being too cautious.

3. Who does Sharpe first talk to at the fort?
(a) Jones.
(b) Tubbs.
(c) Perkins.
(d) Harper.

4. What does Ducos lack?
(a) Pity and mercy.
(b) A conscience.
(c) An agressive nature.
(d) Enough food to feed his men for more than 2 days.

5. What does Pailleterie see going towards San Miguel?
(a) Two British battalions.
(b) A hidden path.
(c) Two French battalions.
(d) A small stream.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harper admit to Sharpe?

2. What does Major Tubbs suggest that Sharpe declines to do?

3. Who is Captain Michel Pailleterie?

4. Why is Sharpe filled with fury?

5. How many men does Captain Pailleterie take on his mission?

(see the answer key)

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