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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do some of the soldiers prowl through the bodies after the battle?
(a) Searching for valuables.
(b) Looking for friends.
(c) To spit on the enemy.
(d) Collecting weapons.

2. What is Father Sarsfield's real name?
(a) Paul MacKenzie.
(b) Kevin Connonlly.
(c) Father O'Reefe.
(d) Father Mallon.

3. When Massena sends in ten fresh battalions what is the fight over?
(a) The last few feet of the slope behind Fuentes de Onoro.
(b) The middle o Fuentes de Onoro.
(c) The part of Fuentes de Onoro cut by a stream.
(d) The French held outskirts of Fuentes de Onoro.

4. What does Kiely do when he learns about the change in his life?
(a) Goes after Loup.
(b) Quits the military.
(c) Fights a duel with Sharpe.
(d) Kills himself.

5. Where do some of the people from Nave de Haver flee?
(a) East.
(b) North.
(c) South.
(d) West.

6. What does Tarrant say about the French in relationship to his job?
(a) He thinks the French do not have the equivalent position.
(b) He hopes the French do as poor a job.
(c) He hopes the French do not have someone as good as him.
(d) He knows the man who holds his position in the French army.

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

8. What does Massena tell Loup to do when Massena's bluecoats begin to clear the skyline?
(a) To hit the British on its northern flank.
(b) To clear the village of the dead.
(c) To push the troops the last few feet up the sloop.
(d) To take the middle of Fuentes de Onoro.

9. What is different about the way the Highlanders and the 88th. Irish attack the French on the slopes?
(a) They have not fixed bayonets.
(b) They do it in utter silence.
(c) They are rolling boulders before them.
(d) They do not stop for a customery volley first.

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

11. About what does Donaju complain to Sharpe?
(a) Not being able to attend Kiely's burial.
(b) Having the men's muskets taken from them.
(c) Having to guard the ammunition.
(d) Having to take over command.

12. What does Hogan tell Sharpe about Sharpe's change in status?
(a) Wellington is demoting Sharpe back to enlisted.
(b) Sharpe will be attached permanently to the Real Compañía Irlandesa.
(c) Sharpe is being court-martialed.
(d) Sharpe is on administrative duties.

13. Why are the Spanish partisans in Nave de Haver?
(a) To scout the eastern flank of the French army.
(b) To be the first line defense against the cosairs.
(c) To watch the southern flank of the British army.
(d) To protect their families.

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

15. What do the French dragoons do when they come through Nave de Haver the morning after the truce?
(a) Stop and recruit soldiers.
(b) Ride through on their way north.
(c) Look for spies.
(d) Slaughter the partisans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Wellington's opinion of Erskine?

2. Who comes down from the heights to support the Scottish hit by a surprise silent attack on Fuentes de Onoro?

3. What will calling Sharpe to task do?

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

5. What does Sharpe explain to Tarrant?

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