2. Who is Arthur Wellesley?
(a) The commander who is disgraced when he fails to capture the fort several months ago.
(b) The mayor of the town near the fort.
(c) Patrick Harper's good buddy.
(d) The commander responsible for capturing the fort.

3. Why doesn't Sharpe want to do what Major Tubbs suggests?
(a) Sharpe does not trust Major Tubbs.
(b) Sharpe wants to keep Teresa where he can protect her.
(c) Sharpe does not think the French will harm the peasants and they'd be in the way inside the fort.
(d) Sharpe does not want to raise the alarm falsely.

4. Where does Sharpe send Harper and twenty riflemen?
(a) To protect the bridge.
(b) To protect the musket cache.
(c) To take a message to Wellington.
(d) To a nearby farm.

5. What did the sacrifice at Avila do?
(a) Give Sharpe a clear field to regroup.
(b) Give the Duke of Wellington's forces a way to retreat.
(c) Open the back way to Castile.
(d) Free the rest of Teresa's rebel group to join Sharpe.

6. When was "Sharpe's Skirmish" first written?
(a) 2008.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1898.

7. Where does Herault march as night falls?
(a) Into Avila.
(b) Back towards Paris.
(c) Back to rejoin Soult.
(d) Across the hills.

8. What is Sharpe ordered to do at the fort?
(a) Destroy anything that would be of use to the French if they return.
(b) Interrogate the French soldiers taken prisoner.
(c) Guard Major Tubbs and Tubbs' men.
(d) Dig entrenchments.

9. What does Herault now command?
(a) The South Army's infantry.
(b) The North Army's horsemen.
(c) The South Army's heavy artillery.
(d) The South Army's horsemen.

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

11. What does Tubbs not believe?
(a) That Teresa's Spainish rebels should fight with the British.
(b) That the French are coming.
(c) That Harper and his men can get through to Wellington in time.
(d) That the French will destroy Avila.

12. What is sacrificed at Avila?
(a) 300 French infantrymen.
(b) The ability to stike back quickly.
(c) 3,000 British pike men.
(d) 100 French heavy cavalry.

13. With what book was "Sharpe's Skirmish" supposed to be given away?
(a) "Sharpe's Fortress".
(b) None.
(c) "Sharpe at Waterloo".
(d) "Sharpe's Rifles".

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

15. Of what does Tubbs take possession?
(a) The wine.
(b) The French prisoners.
(c) The French camp followers.
(d) The muskets.