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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 makes a recovery of the situation at San Miguel possible for Sharpe?
(a) If Pailleterie panics.
(b) If Teresa returns in time with reinforcements.
(c) If the fire in the fort spreads rapidly and the French cannot extinguish it.
(d) If Tubbs does his part inside the fort.

2. Who does Teresa say she fights?
(a) Anyone who gives Sharpe a hard time.
(b) Whoever she feels like fighting.
(c) Rude men.
(d) Anyone allied with Napoleon.

3. What does Sharpe have disposed of, found in the fort?
(a) Spoiled wheat.
(b) The wine.
(c) Bad artillery rounds.
(d) A few gallons of poison.

4. Why does Pailleterie shelter his men in the fort?
(a) To keep the British in the fort from escaping.
(b) To shelter his losses.
(c) Because of the heavy gunfire coming from the farmhouse.
(d) To keep the fort from being retaken.

5. What does Sharpe think is almost impossible?
(a) The French could reach the fort.
(b) The French could still be in Spain.
(c) The Spanish regulars would attack their own fortress.
(d) The English could march from Brest to there in two days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Herault now command?

2. What does Sharpe notice about the fort?

3. What gives Pailleterie an advantage in charging across the bridge?

4. Who is Captain Michel Pailleterie?

5. Who is Arthur Wellesley?

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