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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vivar ask Sharpe to recount at the dinner table?
(a) How Sharpe saved Vivar.
(b) What Sharpe believes is in the strongbox.
(c) Sharpe's military experience.
(d) Sharpe's family history.

2. Why has Louisa joined Sharpe's group?
(a) To get away from her uncle and aunt.
(b) She is tired of reading the Bible all the time.
(c) To have an adventure.
(d) She is looking for a husband.

3. What does Sharpe do when Mrs. Parker refuses to leave the carriage?
(a) Pulls her out of it.
(b) Pushes the carriage over with her in it.
(c) Tells her husband to push her out.
(d) Cuts the horses loose from the carriage.

4. What does Vivar tell Sharpe about how he deals with military regulations?
(a) He gives his men a list of ten commands to learn and follow.
(b) He adheres to the book.
(c) He ignores them completely.
(d) He reduces them to three simple rules.

5. What does Vivar say when Sharpe tells Vivar he plans to go south?
(a) There are no open roads to the south.
(b) Lisbon is to the north.
(c) He will go with him.
(d) The British are to the east.

6. From whom is Major Blas Vivar hiding a strongbox?
(a) The Spanish.
(b) The British.
(c) His sister.
(d) The French.

7. What does Sharpe do to a cavalry horse that reaches him?
(a) Pulls the rider off and mount it.
(b) Cuts its front leg in half.
(c) Kicks it in the ribs.
(d) Strikes it in the mouth with his sword.

8. Where was Vivar when his wife died?
(a) In Spain.
(b) In Britain.
(c) In France.
(d) In America.

9. What does the French commander tell Sharpe?
(a) He has ten minutes to surrender.
(b) He will let them go if Sharpe gives him the strongbox.
(c) He will burn the farmhouse down.
(d) He will hang all of Sharpe's men as thieves.

10. What does Sharpe order Williams to do at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Move the wounded.
(b) Send men out for firewood.
(c) Take a squad to scout.
(d) Form ranks.

11. What does Sharpe order Hagman to do when the French begin firing again?
(a) To start shooting the French horses.
(b) To blow up the carriage.
(c) To escape and find Vivar.
(d) To re-negotiate with the French.

12. For what does Vivar thank Harper?
(a) Covering the bridge across the river.
(b) Saving Vivar's life.
(c) Starting the forest fire.
(d) Saving the stongbox.

13. What does Williams tell Sharpe that Vivar has told Williams about the strongbox?
(a) It is the King's Great Seal.
(b) It contains gold.
(c) It has valuable intelligence information.
(d) It contains precious jewels.

14. What will Vivar's troops do in the morning?
(a) Go to Lisbon.
(b) Stay at the village.
(c) Go to Madrid.
(d) Continue on to Satiago de Compostela.

15. What does Sharpe tell the Parkers to do when he sights French cavalry?
(a) Continue down the road.
(b) Go off the road to the right.
(c) Turn around.
(d) Stop and hide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe think about advancing directly into the French troops?

2. What happens to Major Dunnet during the battle with the French?

3. What keeps French reinforcements from crushing Vivar and Sharpe?

4. How does Father Alzaga feel towards Sharpe?

5. What does Harper refuse to do?

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