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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Sharpe decide to do to the two French prisoners?
(a) Execute them.
(b) Cut off their heads.
(c) Take them back as POW's.
(d) Let them go.

4. 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 is not British.
(d) Someone who has no family.

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

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

7. Why does Lord Kiely take offense at Sharpe when they first meet?
(a) Sharpe tells Kiely to sober up.
(b) Sharpe ordered the soldiers to close ranks.
(c) Sharpe makes a comment about Juanita.
(d) Sharpe tells him they look terrible.

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

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

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

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

12. How did Kiely become the commander of the Real Compañía Irlandesa?
(a) He purchased the position.
(b) By virtue of his birth.
(c) He was the second in command when the commander was killed.
(d) By order of the King.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What makes Sharpe change his mind about ignoring the small settlement below them?

3. What does Sharpe tell Oliveira about the Real Compañía Irlandesa?

4. Why does Sharpe suggest the rumors are false?

5. Of what does Sharpe accuse Loup?

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