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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Loup tell the men about the wounded?
(a) To finish them off with a mercy stroke.
(b) Not to be gentle with them.
(c) To take them to the waiting French surgeons.
(d) To ignore them.

2. Why have the French called an unofficial truce?
(a) To rest.
(b) To decide if they will attack again.
(c) To study the British position.
(d) To collect their dead and wounded.

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

4. What do the Spanish say about San Isidoro?
(a) No Spanish were killed there.
(b) Loup would not have attacked if not for Sharpe.
(c) Sharpe should have won the battle.
(d) It was too old to be a fort.

5. What does Donaju ask Sharpe about Kiely's suicide?
(a) If Sharpe had heard about it.
(b) If Sharpe knew Kiely was going to do it.
(c) If Father Sarsfield had talked to the men about it.
(d) If Sharpe knew where Kiely had done it.

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

7. What does Hogan throw into Kiely's grave?
(a) The coat of arms from the Real Compañía Irlandesa.
(b) Kiely's sword.
(c) Some dirt from Ireland.
(d) A gold cross.

8. Who is Sir William Erskine?
(a) The commander of the siege troops at Almeida.
(b) The Spanish advisor to the British.
(c) Sharpe's commanding officer.
(d) An acquaintance of Wellington's.

9. Who are the biggest and most fierce fighters of the French?
(a) The Wolf Brigade.
(b) The cosairs.
(c) The Rangers.
(d) The grenadiers.

10. What does Sarsfield do after Hogan talks to him?
(a) Pulls out a loaded pistol.
(b) Knock him in the grave.
(c) Spit on him.
(d) Hit him in the face.

11. What does Sharpe ask Runciman?
(a) If he wants to go back farther from the fighting.
(b) If he is ready to die.
(c) If he will tell Donaju to take the Real Compañía Irlandesa behind French lines.
(d) If he wants to beat the court of inquiry.

12. How does Massena feel when the British in the south join the northern force?
(a) Enraged.
(b) Surprised.
(c) Smug, it was what he wanted them to do.
(d) Defeated.

13. Why did people in the era of Sharpe's Battle pay money to insane asylums?
(a) To have better care for a relative.
(b) To watch the patients.
(c) To be able to hire the less insane people for dirty work.
(d) As charity giving.

14. What message is sent to Massena from the French dragoons?
(a) They are heading for Poco Velha.
(b) They are staying in Nave de Haver.
(c) All of the people in Nave de Haver are now prisoners.
(d) There were no Spanish partisans in Nave de Haver.

15. What do Sharpe and Harper do after the battle at the village?
(a) Take baths.
(b) Go to see Wellington.
(c) Change their uniform.
(d) Get drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sharpe gasp as he is watching the battle with Wellington?

2. Why is the open plain a bad place for the British to be?

3. What part of his army did Wellington send south?

4. Which British troops head north while the French are attacking Fuentes de Onoro in hopes of joining the defense?

5. What does Sharpe say to Hogan about Sarsfield?

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