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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 Tubbs say about Sharpe being an officer?
(a) He was brought up through the ranks.
(b) He acts more like a noble than many nobles.
(c) He may be an officer, but he's no gentleman.
(d) He is the finest there is.

2. Why is Sharpe in a quandary?
(a) He does not not the best way to defend against the large French force.
(b) He is unsure whether to deploy his cavalry against the heavy French cavalry.
(c) He does not know if he should give up the bridge and find a more defensible position.
(d) He does not know how many French he has to fight.

3. What does Sharpe find when he sneaks to a wall of the fort?
(a) A place where the wall has weakened.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A crack.
(d) A hole under the wall.

4. How is Lieutenant Price in early dawn?
(a) Alert.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Unconscious from his wound infection.
(d) Groggy.

5. How does Sharpe know more French are coming?
(a) He does not think any more French are coming.
(b) Because Pailleterie is holed up in the fort.
(c) The barricade has been removed.
(d) Because Sharpe can see dust rising several miles in the distance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe realize about the wall?

2. Who does Sharpe push into the water?

3. About what does Coignet ask Pailleterie?

4. Where is the wagon that had originally blockaded the bridge?

5. How is Sharpe feeling at the coming of the dawn?

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