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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Ducos point out Guy Loup to Juanita de Elia?
(a) When he rides into the courtyard.
(b) When he is in the hallway.
(c) When he is at a banquet.
(d) When he is taking the steps into the building.

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

3. Why does Sharpe meet with Colonel Oliveira?
(a) Oliveira is the Portuguese's commander.
(b) Sharpe is good friends with Oliveira's brother.
(c) Oliveira has information about Loup.
(d) Oliveira is the new commander of the Real Compañía Irlandesa.

4. Why do the French leave San Isidoro?
(a) Two ammunition wagons blow up.
(b) The Portuguese outflank them.
(c) Loup is wounded.
(d) British reinforcements arrive.

5. What does El Castrador tell Sharpe when he arrives after the battle?
(a) That Loup is holed up in a small village nearby.
(b) That Loup is coming again in two days.
(c) That he and his men killed forty of Loup's soldiers.
(d) That he has found more deserters.

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

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

8. Who is chasing Juanita across the plains?
(a) The Spanish cavalry.
(b) No one.
(c) The British.
(d) Some of Loup's troops.

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

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

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

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

13. Who is El Castrador?
(a) A Spanish partisan.
(b) Sharpe's brother-in-law.
(c) The mayor of San Isidoro.
(d) Head of the Spanish 405th. Rifle Company.

14. What does Sharpe do when he gets within a few yards of San Cristobal?
(a) Gets up and walks.
(b) Returns to his men.
(c) Crawls on his belly.
(d) Lays still and observes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does El Castrador want to know about dead soldier's teeth?

2. How many of the Portuguese battalion survived the attack by Loup?

3. How does Runciman feel about his new position?

4. How does Sharpe feel about Runciman surviving?

5. Who commanded the gatehouse not be opened during the attack?

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