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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the British attempt to stay on good terms with the locals?
(a) By helping them with the harvest.
(b) By routing out the French.
(c) By not looting or doing other criminal acts.
(d) By giving them money.

2. What is Moreno's connection to Casatejada?
(a) He used to own a great deal of land there.
(b) He was born there.
(c) He is a fugitive and wanted there.
(d) No connection.

3. What does Kearsey think he is doing?
(a) Helping Sharpe deliver gold to the Spanish.
(b) Giving Sharpe assistance in holding Almeida.
(c) He's not sure.
(d) Helping Sharpe sort through the various factions at the fortress.

4. How is the morale of the forces aligned against Napoleon?
(a) Cautiously optimistic.
(b) Elated.
(c) Low and feeling as though the war is lost.
(d) Angry.

5. Who reminds the men of their own mortality?
(a) Sharpe.
(b) Ramon.
(c) Teresa.
(d) Kelly.

6. What does Sharpe admit to Wellington?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Threatening Ayres with a rifle.
(c) Ordering his men to help with the harvest.
(d) Telling Harper he could have leave.

7. Who does Sharpe recognize as the leader of the Spanish forces fighting the French?
(a) El Liberato.
(b) El Catolico.
(c) General Matiz.
(d) Kearsey.

8. Who does El Catolico trust?
(a) Sharpe.
(b) Cox.
(c) Kearsey.
(d) Tereasa.

9. How does the woman lead Sharpe to his men?
(a) The men find Sharpe.
(b) Around the west side of town.
(c) Through several alleyways.
(d) Through a trap door.

10. To what does Teresa admit?
(a) That there is much more gold in the village.
(b) That the French have more gold.
(c) That El Catolico killed Moreno.
(d) That El Catolico killed Hardy.

11. Why does Sharpe follow the beautiful woman they just rescued?
(a) He thinks he has met her before.
(b) He is afraid she might get hurt in the fighting.
(c) He wants to interrogate her.
(d) He thinks she must be important to the enemy.

12. Where is most of the ammunition stored in Almeida?
(a) A vault in the cemetary.
(b) In several deep caves in the surrounding hills.
(c) The cathedral.
(d) The armory.

13. With what is Ramon impressed?
(a) The way Sharpe fights.
(b) Sharpe's Riflemen company.
(c) El Catolico's sword work.
(d) The way Sharpe fought off half a dozen men to save Teresa.

14. Who is El Catolico marrying?
(a) Knowles' sister.
(b) Sharpe's sister.
(c) Moreno's daughter.
(d) Cadiz's daugther.

15. What is Sharpe's quest?
(a) To discover who is leaking intelligence to the French.
(b) To discover who is killing soliders randomly in their sleep.
(c) To find his wife he left him.
(d) To find gold to help finance the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe do with the Spanish?

2. Who do Harper and Sharpe capture?

3. What does Sharpe worry about on his men's approach to the village?

4. What is one thing that makes Sharpe suspect El Catolico?

5. Who are tied to two horses coming out of town?

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