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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: page 57-63.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe suggest to Teresa?
(a) To stay in Salamanca for a couple weeks.
(b) To bring their daughter to San Miguel for a week.
(c) To stay in Madrid for a couple weeks.
(d) To stay in Avila for a couple weeks.

2. What does the narrator say in the introduction about the first version of "Sharpe's Skirmish"?
(a) It was quite superb for the amount of time spent on it.
(b) It had a number of inaccuracies.
(c) It was obvious that it was written in haste.
(d) He does not say anything about a first version.

3. How is Sharpe feeling at the coming of the dawn?
(a) Vindicated.
(b) Weary and foolish.
(c) Optimistic.
(d) Angry.

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

5. To what does Sharpe's men object until Sharpe gets near?
(a) Following orders from Harper.
(b) Following orders from Tubbs.
(c) Testing live artillery pieces.
(d) Breaking bottles of good wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ducos suggest sending 300 men?

2. What does Price say about Teresa?

3. What does the French commander decide to try to do to Sharpe's men?

4. What do Pailleterie and Tubbs discuss?

5. When was "Sharpe's Skirmish" first written?

(see the answer key)

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