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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hogan do on the way to Kiely's burial?
(a) Have Harper hide behind a wall near the grave.
(b) Get Father Sarsfield to do the burial.
(c) Pull Sharpe aside.
(d) Stop and have a drink.

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

3. What excuse do Sharpe and Harper use to go to the village?
(a) See if the troops are in position.
(b) Find out if the colonel wants his greencoats now.
(c) See if the troops need ammunition.
(d) See where to position his greencoats.

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

5. What is Wellington's opinion of Erskine?
(a) Erskine is a good soldier.
(b) Erskine is a double agent.
(c) Erskine is corrupte.
(d) Erskine is insane.

6. What does Sharpe explain to Tarrant?
(a) Politics.
(b) Morality.
(c) How the French attacked the village.
(d) That Juanita had carried the false newspapers.

7. 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.

8. 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 French held outskirts of Fuentes de Onoro.
(c) The middle o Fuentes de Onoro.
(d) The part of Fuentes de Onoro cut by a stream.

9. Who comes down from the heights to support the Scottish hit by a surprise silent attack on Fuentes de Onoro?
(a) The 307th Rifle Brigade.
(b) The Highlanders.
(c) The Warwicks.
(d) The close quarters mounted troops.

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

11. What is Sharpe using to look at the French troops?
(a) Binoculars.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A telescope.
(d) A pair of glasses.

12. Why does Sharpe gasp as he is watching the battle with Wellington?
(a) He sees the grey wolf banner.
(b) He sees some of his greencoats being ambushed.
(c) He sees the young lieutenant overrun.
(d) He sees Juanita.

13. 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 take over command.
(d) Having to guard the ammunition.

14. What does Wellington see when overlooking Fuentes de Onoro?
(a) Fuentes de Onoro is a smoking shamble.
(b) He cannot see Fuentes de Onoro from where he sits.
(c) Spanish residents of Fuentes de Onoro fleeing.
(d) The British army setting up there.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Spanish say about San Isidoro?

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

3. What does Loup tell the men about the wounded?

4. What kind of pace do the troops in the south use to march north?

5. Where is the item Harper picked up at after the battle?

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