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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does San Cristobal appear when Sharpe arrives there?
(a) Full of Spainish civilians.
(b) As if Loup had burned the place.
(c) Bustling with soldiers.
(d) Empty.

2. What does Sharpe decide to do to the two French prisoners?
(a) Execute them.
(b) Take them back as POW's.
(c) Let them go.
(d) Cut off their heads.

3. How can the British defend the barracks?
(a) From the second floor eaves.
(b) Through the windows.
(c) From the roof.
(d) Through loopholes.

4. What does Hogan tell Sharpe when he comes to San Isidoro?
(a) Runciman will be executed.
(b) Sharpe did well under the circumstances.
(c) Sharpe will go before a board of inquiry.
(d) They are putting the blame on Runciman.

5. How did Kiely become the commander of the Real Compañía Irlandesa?
(a) He purchased the position.
(b) By order of the King.
(c) He was the second in command when the commander was killed.
(d) By virtue of his birth.

6. What does Kiely say is the reason men desert?
(a) They are afraid to die.
(b) They are not fighting enough.
(c) They are bored and feel under-valued.
(d) They don't like the army food.

7. Of what does Sharpe accuse Loup?
(a) Murder.
(b) Rape.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Being stupid.

8. How does de Elia feel towards Loup?
(a) She is indifferent to him.
(b) She despises him.
(c) She is attracted to him.
(d) She is angry at him.

9. How does Hogan feel about Sharpe's interaction with Kiely?
(a) Not pleased.
(b) Angry.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Humorous.

10. What does a look-out spot below them?
(a) A woman who is injured.
(b) Two hundred British soldiers.
(c) A French soldier stopping to urinate.
(d) A deer.

11. What is El Castrador's response to Sharpe's question?
(a) He does not answer Sharpe and leaves.
(b) He will go if there is no fighting.
(c) He will help find Loup and then leave.
(d) He does not want to go.

12. What does Sharpe tell Oliveira about the Real Compañía Irlandesa?
(a) Why they came to San Isidoro.
(b) That they are probably traitors to Spain.
(c) That they are great soldiers.
(d) That they will be leaving San Isidoro soon.

13. What does Sharpe convince Runciman to do?
(a) Get better food for the troops.
(b) Have the general inspect the troops.
(c) Appropriate some muskets for the Real Compañía Irlandesa.
(d) Get more ammunition.

14. How many men desert from the Real Compañía Irlandesa the first night?
(a) Two.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Eleven.

15. Why was Sharpe able to get El Castrador to see him?
(a) Sharpe knows the second in command.
(b) Sharpe promised El Castrador new weapons.
(c) El Castrador knows Sharpe's wife.
(d) El Castrador heard Loup was angry at Sharpe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sharpe meet with Colonel Oliveira?

2. Who is El Castrador?

3. About what person does Harper tell a story?

4. What happened to the gatehouse where the Real Compañía Irlandesa officers were billeted?

5. What are the two keys of Spain, according to the French?

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