2. What does Ducos plan to do with the British forces?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Have them take the wrong fortress.
(c) Make them think the Spainish king has abdicated to Napoleon.
(d) Split them along national lines.

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Sharpe think the men desert?
(a) They are not deserting.
(b) They are only for guarding the king.
(c) They don't like Kiely's fighting philosophy.
(d) They are Irish.

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

9. Why is Father Sarsfield impressed with Sharpe?
(a) Sharpe can pick locks.
(b) Sharpe is known as a famous swordsman.
(c) Sharpe has captured a French eagle.
(d) Sharpe came up through the ranks.

10. What are the four French soldiers that ride up to the village carrying?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The body of one of Sharpe's riflemen.
(c) A white flag.
(d) A British standard.

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

12. What does Sharpe hear as he is entering San Cristobal?
(a) Wolves howling.
(b) Gunshots.
(c) A woman singing.
(d) Horses coming quickly.

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

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

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