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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) Burning the houses.
(b) Killing the Spanish men.
(c) Sleeping off a drunk.
(d) Raping a young woman.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Sharpe find out about Kiely when he speaks with him?
(a) He really wants to fight the French.
(b) He doesn't want to fight the French.
(c) He is a widow.
(d) He has a son in the army.

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

9. Why is Sharpe chastising himself about the battle?
(a) He did not think Loup would attack.
(b) He did not see what a trap the barracks was.
(c) He should have saved more of the Portuguese.
(d) He should have been in the gatehouse.

10. Why was Sharpe able to get El Castrador to see him?
(a) Sharpe promised El Castrador new weapons.
(b) El Castrador knows Sharpe's wife.
(c) Sharpe knows the second in command.
(d) El Castrador heard Loup was angry at Sharpe.

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

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

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

14. Who commanded the gatehouse not be opened during the attack?
(a) Juanita de Elia.
(b) Captain Donaju.
(c) Lord Kiely.
(d) Captain Eduardo de la Engiesie.

15. How does de Elia feel towards Loup?
(a) She is angry at him.
(b) She is attracted to him.
(c) She is indifferent to him.
(d) She despises him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened to the gatehouse where the Real Compañía Irlandesa officers were billeted?

3. Why does Sharpe suggest the rumors are false?

4. Of what does Sharpe accuse Loup?

5. How does Sharpe feel about the Real Compañía Irlandesa when he first meets them?

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