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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the Spanish partisans in Nave de Haver?
(a) To protect their families.
(b) To watch the southern flank of the British army.
(c) To be the first line defense against the cosairs.
(d) To scout the eastern flank of the French army.

2. What is different about the way the Highlanders and the 88th. Irish attack the French on the slopes?
(a) They do not stop for a customery volley first.
(b) They are rolling boulders before them.
(c) They do it in utter silence.
(d) They have not fixed bayonets.

3. What does Tarrant want Sharpe's greencoats to do?
(a) Guard the ammunition wagons.
(b) Guard Tarrant and his staff.
(c) Join the troops in the south.
(d) Report to the colonel in charge of defending the village.

4. Who kills Juanita?
(a) No one.
(b) Harper.
(c) Donaju.
(d) Sharpe.

5. What part of his army did Wellington send south?
(a) The Warwicks and the Highlanders.
(b) The fifth division.
(c) The seventh division.
(d) The 307th. greencoat battalion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of pace do the troops in the south use to march north?

2. What does Donaju ask Sharpe about Kiely's suicide?

3. Why has Massena given Loup the orders he gave?

4. What does Kiely learn when Sharpe returns to San Isidoro?

5. Who are the biggest and most fierce fighters of the French?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hogan set up confronting Father Sarsfield?

2. How do Sharpe and his men help the southern troops?

3. What do the French do at the church in Nave de Haver?

4. How does Sharpe kill Loup and how is Sharpe wounded?

5. What is Valverde's argument about Sharpe?

6. What does Hogan say to Sarsfield?

7. How does Sharpe, Runciman, and the Real Compañía Irlandesa get involved in the battle for Fuentes de Onoro?

8. What type of superstitious action does Harper take?

9. How does Massena react to the southern troops joining the northern ones and what does Wellington do after the army is reunited?

10. How does the second large battle for Fuentes de Onoro start and which British troops are involved?

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