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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hogan tell Wellington about the French forces?
(a) Several nearby have come together.
(b) They are being loaded on ships.
(c) They are leaving the area.
(d) They are heading towards Madrid.

2. What are Sharpe and his riflemen doing when they are moving south?
(a) Rescuing the seventh division.
(b) Escorting ammunition.
(c) Heading to Fuentes de Onoro.
(d) Supporting the Highlander and Warwick units.

3. What would happen if Wellington lost his entire force?
(a) He would be executed.
(b) England would have to leave Spain.
(c) He would be stripped of command.
(d) It would cut the English army in half.

4. What is the only choice left for the British to retreat?
(a) There are no choices for retreat.
(b) A narrow bridge.
(c) Going through a heavy growth forest.
(d) Taking Almeida.

5. What does Harper see lying in the dirt that he picks up?
(a) A rag doll.
(b) A stuffed pony.
(c) A bayonet.
(d) A knife.

6. What does Wellington tell Sharpe as Sharpe is leaving?
(a) He is still on administrative leave.
(b) The prisoners were war criminals.
(c) He has to get the ammunition to the left flank.
(d) They don't shoot prisoners so the French won't either.

7. Who kills Juanita?
(a) Donaju.
(b) No one.
(c) Sharpe.
(d) Harper.

8. What does Tarrant call the two soldiers with him?
(a) Dumb and Dumber.
(b) Gog and Magog.
(c) Idiot and Fool.
(d) Jeckle and Hyde.

9. What kind of pace do the troops in the south use to march north?
(a) A pace no army in the known world can match.
(b) They are running in a rout.
(c) A very slow pace.
(d) A half time jogging pace.

10. What are Sharpe and his men doing to aid the troops marching north?
(a) Killing cavalry officers and horses.
(b) They use caltrops to slow the cavalry.
(c) They are interspersed in the troops.
(d) They are not in the south.

11. What does Sharpe do when the young lieutenant is shot?
(a) Goes and gets the colonel.
(b) Withdraws the lieutenant's men.
(c) Regroup the men.
(d) Has Harper take him to the surgeon's area.

12. What was Hogan's response to Sharpe's comment about Sarsfield?
(a) He disagrees with Sharpe.
(b) He argues with Sharpe.
(c) He agrees with Sharpe.
(d) He laughs at Sharpe.

13. What does Sharpe tell Donaju to do?
(a) Have some of the greencoats go help the ones being ambushed.
(b) Get an ammunition wagon ready to go.
(c) Ready the Real Compañía Irlandesa for battle.
(d) Pull the Real Compañía Irlandesa back from the heights.

14. To what staff does Tarrant belong?
(a) Quartermaster.
(b) Artillery officer.
(c) Tactics and strategy.
(d) Administration.

15. How would Wellington withdraw if he lost at Almeida?
(a) Across a narrow bridge spanning a rocky canyon.
(b) Across a deep river.
(c) He would be caught with the ocean at his back.
(d) Into the mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Father Sarsfield's real name?

2. What does Wellington need in order to win the war?

3. Who is Sir William Erskine?

4. Why did people in the era of Sharpe's Battle pay money to insane asylums?

5. What do Wellington and Hogan decide about Sharpe?

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