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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two Frenchmen in the village doing when Sharpe arrives?
(a) Raping a young woman.
(b) Killing the Spanish men.
(c) Sleeping off a drunk.
(d) Burning the houses.

2. How many men desert from the Real Compañía Irlandesa the first night?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Two.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Twenty.

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

4. What does Hogan tell Sharpe when he comes to San Isidoro?
(a) Sharpe did well under the circumstances.
(b) They are putting the blame on Runciman.
(c) Sharpe will go before a board of inquiry.
(d) Runciman will be executed.

5. How does San Cristobal appear when Sharpe arrives there?
(a) Full of Spainish civilians.
(b) As if Loup had burned the place.
(c) Bustling with soldiers.
(d) Empty.

6. What is El Castrador's response to Sharpe's question?
(a) He will go if there is no fighting.
(b) He does not answer Sharpe and leaves.
(c) He will help find Loup and then leave.
(d) He does not want to go.

7. Why will de Elia be meeting Loup?
(a) She knows his brother.
(b) She is supposed to kill him.
(c) She will be working with him.
(d) She is to marry him.

8. What does Sharpe do as Loup is leaving?
(a) Gives him a two finger salute.
(b) Throws a rock at Loup's horse.
(c) Tells Loup he is going to kill him.
(d) Hits him in the face.

9. Why does Sharpe suggest the rumors are false?
(a) He doesn't trust the media.
(b) The new Irish recruits haven't said anything.
(c) The British has already given the Irish their independence.
(d) The new British recruits haven't said anything about them.

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

11. What happened to the gatehouse where the Real Compañía Irlandesa officers were billeted?
(a) It was pounded with a ram.
(b) All of its windows were broken.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It was burned down.

12. What does Ducos want to do with Spain?
(a) Keep out from under the French.
(b) Decimate it.
(c) Become the King of Spain.
(d) Hand it over to Napoleon.

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

14. What does Sharpe suggest Donaju do about the rumors?
(a) He call the men into formation and announce they are false.
(b) He should forbid Juanita from talking to the troops.
(c) He go to the British base and interview new Irish arrivals.
(d) He go to the British base and interview new British arrivals.

15. What does Sharpe stress to Oliveira about Loup?
(a) That he is going to attack San Isidoro.
(b) That Loup is a murderer.
(c) That Sharpe has been looking for Loup.
(d) That Loup hates Sharpe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the French do to get to Sharpe's troops?

3. Who is El Castrador?

4. What are the four French soldiers that ride up to the village carrying?

5. What goes over a cliff in Harper's story?

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