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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do they know who the man is who saved them?
(a) It was the man assigned to guard that area.
(b) They never found out.
(c) They found the man's tobacco tin.
(d) Loup left the man hanging from a tree.

2. Where does Runciman say he spent some time in the army?
(a) North Africa.
(b) India.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Prussia.

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

4. What does Sharpe ask El Castrador to do?
(a) Join them at San Isidoro.
(b) Kill and mutilate two deserters.
(c) Get a message to Sharpe's wife.
(d) Find out where Loup is located.

5. What do the British need the most in their scapegoat for San Isidoro?
(a) Someone with no career in the army.
(b) A man of high enough rank.
(c) Someone who has no family.
(d) Someone who is not British.

6. What happens to Sharpe's request about supplies to the British headquarters?
(a) It was turned down.
(b) It was intercepted.
(c) It will be two months before it can be filled.
(d) The supplies were sent right away.

7. When did Loup kill Oliveira?
(a) When Oliveira tried to surrender.
(b) He didn't kill Oliveira.
(c) When Oliveira ran for the barracks.
(d) When Loup found him in the hills.

8. Who is with the Portuguese that Sharpe knows?
(a) Thomas Garrard.
(b) Alane de Camipoelo.
(c) Sergeant Hagman.
(d) Paul Morris.

9. What do Sharpe and Harper find in other cottages?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Food and water.
(c) Mutilated and tortured Spaniards.
(d) Cowering civilians.

10. What do the French do to get to Sharpe's troops?
(a) Demand his surrender.
(b) Hold Oliveira hostage.
(c) Set the building on fire.
(d) Climb the roof.

11. What does one of the Frenchmen do immediately?
(a) Runs out and surrenders.
(b) Kills the young woman.
(c) Shoots at Sharpe.
(d) Runs into the woods.

12. Where are most of the women and children located at San Isidoro?
(a) In the command center.
(b) Spread throughout the fort.
(c) The barracks.
(d) The gatehouse.

13. How can the British defend the barracks?
(a) Through the windows.
(b) From the roof.
(c) Through loopholes.
(d) From the second floor eaves.

14. What does Guy Loup demand of Sharpe?
(a) His two men.
(b) That they fight a duel.
(c) That Sharpe surrender.
(d) The money that was in the village chapel.

15. What is Richard Sharpe and his troops' dilemma at the beginning of the book?
(a) They have no ammunition.
(b) They are lost.
(c) They have no food.
(d) They are surrounded.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is El Castrador?

2. Why does Sharpe meet with Colonel Oliveira?

3. How much notice does Sharpe have that the Portuguese battalion is coming?

4. What does Sharpe do as Loup is leaving?

5. Why was Sharpe able to get El Castrador to see him?

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