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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ducos think about Loup's capabilities?
(a) He is incompetent.
(b) He is one of the best soldiers and leaders in Spain.
(c) He is a mediocre soldier but good leader.
(d) He is a great soldier but a poor leader.

2. How does Kiely's duel with a Frenchman end?
(a) Juanita shoots his opponent.
(b) Kiely cuts off the Frenchman's hand.
(c) Kiely kills his opponent.
(d) The Frenchman draws first blood.

3. What does Sharpe hand to a young Spanish woman?
(a) A dress.
(b) Some brandy.
(c) A map.
(d) A canteen of water.

4. What does he tell Oliveira to do if Loup attacks?
(a) Go to the gatehouse.
(b) Go to the hills and flank Loup.
(c) Go to the barracks.
(d) Hold the front gate.

5. Who talks to Sharpe about a morale problem?
(a) Runciman.
(b) Harper.
(c) Olivier.
(d) Morris.

6. How does Runciman feel about his new position?
(a) He is pleased he was noticed.
(b) He doesn't care one way or the other.
(c) He is angry about it.
(d) He hates it.

7. How are the men finding about supposed atrocities in Ireland?
(a) French newspapers.
(b) Juanita de Elia is making speeches about it.
(c) Father Sarsfield.
(d) American newspapers.

8. What does a look-out spot below them?
(a) Two hundred British soldiers.
(b) A woman who is injured.
(c) A deer.
(d) A French soldier stopping to urinate.

9. What position does Pierre Ducos have with the French military?
(a) Intelligence officer.
(b) Captain of the Corsairs.
(c) Company commander.
(d) Aid-de-Camp.

10. What does Sharpe convince Runciman to do?
(a) Get better food for the troops.
(b) Have the general inspect the troops.
(c) Get more ammunition.
(d) Appropriate some muskets for the Real Compañía Irlandesa.

11. What does Kiely say is the reason men desert?
(a) They are afraid to die.
(b) They don't like the army food.
(c) They are not fighting enough.
(d) They are bored and feel under-valued.

12. What does Sharpe tell the men about dead deserters?
(a) Loup is doing that to them.
(b) The British will execute them.
(c) The Spanish will go after their families also.
(d) The Spanish will not tolerate it.

13. What does Donju suggest about the British and the men of the Real Compañía Irlandesa?
(a) They want them whipped into shape.
(b) They want them killed.
(c) They want them charged with treason.
(d) They want them to desert.

14. Why is Sharpe chastising himself about the battle?
(a) He should have been in the gatehouse.
(b) He did not see what a trap the barracks was.
(c) He did not think Loup would attack.
(d) He should have saved more of the Portuguese.

15. How does Sharpe feel about the Real Compañía Irlandesa when he first meets them?
(a) Angry.
(b) Confused.
(c) Impressed.
(d) Dismayed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sharpe and Harper find in other cottages?

2. Why would the men of Real Compañía Irlandesa feel angry about the rumors of atrocities?

3. What does Sharpe suggest Donaju do about the rumors?

4. Why does Sharpe think the men desert?

5. Why does Sharpe call a formation?

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