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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 the narrator say Major Pierre Ducos is not?
(a) Brave.
(b) A coward.
(c) A major or civilian.
(d) Dishonorable.

2. Who is Mr. MacKeon?
(a) An Irish cook.
(b) A Scot laborer.
(c) An Irish laborer.
(d) A Scottish cook.

3. What is Teresa doing as Price's men fire their rifles?
(a) Bandaging Sharpe's ribs.
(b) On her way to her horse.
(c) Helping rouse the men who are not on watch.
(d) Getting her men lined up for a charge.

4. What is spreading through the Spanish countryside?
(a) Cholera.
(b) News of the French column headed to Avila.
(c) News of a large French army headed to San Miguel.
(d) Malaria.

5. Where does Herault think the biggest danger to his men lies?
(a) Near the Vlazio River crossing.
(b) In going through the mountains.
(c) In crossing the Southern plains.
(d) Near the forst at Brazilios.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Sharpe know he will be blamed?

2. Of what is MacKeon reminded?

3. Why has Sharpe made everyone else nervous?

4. What does Tubbs say about Sharpe being an officer?

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

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