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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. 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 Hardy.
(d) That El Catolico killed Moreno.

2. How is Kearsey performance as a guide?
(a) Unrealistic.
(b) Bungling.
(c) Haphazard.
(d) Excellent.

3. Where do Teresa and El Catolico say Hardy is?
(a) The French have him.
(b) He returned to Portugal.
(c) He is dead.
(d) He returned to Madrid.

4. Who holds the fort at Almeida?
(a) The Portuguese.
(b) The Germans.
(c) The French.
(d) The Spanish.

5. How does Kearsey fall off his horse?
(a) A bird startles the horse.
(b) He is shot by a French archer.
(c) He is stabbed by a Polish lancer.
(d) He is accidentally shot by the Spanish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does El Catolico plan to do?

2. Who are Robert Knowles and Patrick Harper?

3. What does Harper say delays him?

4. Of what does Kearsey deny knowledge?

5. Who are the only Spanish people fighting the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do they discover when they open the Moreno family vault and what is Sharpe's reaction?

2. Why is the mood somber in Chapter one among the forces allied against Napoleon?

3. What does Sharpe find when he follows the woman he later learns is Teresa?

4. What sort of guide is Kearsey and why do the men find him annoying?

5. Where do the men of Sharpe's company go?

6. What does Harper tell Sharpe as the company is being escorted by the Partisans?

7. How does Sharpe threaten El Catolico's men?

8. Who does not agree with most of the others, but why is that not obvious?

9. What happens when Sharpe begins to dig in the grave?

10. Who are discussing Sharpe's state of mind?

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