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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. What will calling Sharpe to task do?
(a) Show the troops war crimes will not be tolerated.
(b) Show the French the upper echelons do not kill prisoners.
(c) Prove the British care about foreign troops.
(d) Show other officers that are responsible for their men.

2. What is the only choice left for the British to retreat?
(a) There are no choices for retreat.
(b) A narrow bridge.
(c) Taking Almeida.
(d) Going through a heavy growth forest.

3. What does Tarrant say about the French in relationship to his job?
(a) He hopes the French do not have someone as good as him.
(b) He hopes the French do as poor a job.
(c) He thinks the French do not have the equivalent position.
(d) He knows the man who holds his position in the French army.

4. What does Sharpe explain to Tarrant?
(a) Morality.
(b) Politics.
(c) How the French attacked the village.
(d) That Juanita had carried the false newspapers.

5. Why is Massena frustrated with the British troops northward march?
(a) He wants to personally kill Wellington.
(b) They have taken out much of the French artillery.
(c) They block his route to Fuentes de Onoro.
(d) His cavalry cannot attack them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wellington see when overlooking Fuentes de Onoro?

2. How would Wellington withdraw if he lost at Almeida?

3. How does Massena feel when the British in the south join the northern force?

4. Who comes down from the heights to support the Scottish hit by a surprise silent attack on Fuentes de Onoro?

5. Who helps the British drive the French out during the French's first attack at the village?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hogan say to Sharpe about letting Juanita go free?

2. Why is Wellington enraged with Erkins?

3. How does Harper's superstitious action turn out?

4. Who do Sharpe and Harper join in the first battle for the village and what happens to that person?

5. What does Hogan say to Sarsfield?

6. What does Sharpe do when he hears Loup shouting out commands in the battle and what do the soldiers around them do?

7. How does Hogan set up confronting Father Sarsfield?

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

9. Who are the three soldiers in charge of ammunition distribution? Why are two of the soldiers on that duty and what are their names?

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

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