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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 gives Pailleterie an advantage in charging across the bridge?
(a) The English are dug in in trenches.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The rising sun blinds the English.
(d) The English have their guns pointed the opposite direction.

2. What does Pailleterie order his men to do as rifle fire commences?
(a) Draw their sabers.
(b) Nothing; he has panicked.
(c) Sheath their sabers and load their muskets.
(d) Retreat.

3. Who does Ducos ask for help?
(a) Soult.
(b) No one.
(c) Marmont.
(d) Sharpe.

4. Who is Major Lucius Tubbs?
(a) He commands the 501 Artillery battalion.
(b) He is in charge of rating the muskets at the fort that were left by the French.
(c) He is Sharpe's immediate superior.
(d) He is the commander of San Miguel.

5. Of what is MacKeon reminded?
(a) A fort he and Sharpe took near Brest.
(b) A seige near Sangre.
(c) Gawilghur.
(d) A battle he read about in his military studies.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sharpe know La Aguja?

2. What does Sharpe find when he sneaks to a wall of the fort?

3. Who else is filled with rage as Sharpe is?

4. Where does Ducos want to force the British?

5. What does Hickey ask Teresa?

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