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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe see when looking at the French?
(a) Juanita de Elia.
(b) The grey uniforms of the Loup brigade.
(c) Pierre Ducos.
(d) Massena and Loup.

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

3. What does Sharpe find in Juanita's panniers?
(a) Nothing.
(b) False newspapers.
(c) Loup's battle plans.
(d) Sharpe's telescope.

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

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

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

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

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 push the troops the last few feet up the sloop.
(c) To clear the village of the dead.
(d) To take the middle of Fuentes de Onoro.

9. What is happening a the church in Nave de Haver when the French dragoons ride into town?
(a) It is empty.
(b) There is a baptism being done.
(c) A mass is just beginning.
(d) There is a wedding going on.

10. What part of his army did Wellington send south?
(a) The 307th. greencoat battalion.
(b) The seventh division.
(c) The Warwicks and the Highlanders.
(d) The fifth division.

11. Where do Sharpe and Loup meet to fight?
(a) On the slopes overlooking the village.
(b) In the middle of the village.
(c) In the middle of the stream.
(d) Almost at the French lines.

12. What does Tarrant tell Sharpe he has heard about?
(a) How Sharpe fought in the battle.
(b) That Loup is dead.
(c) Sharpe's court of inquiry.
(d) That the young lieutenant died.

13. Why is the open plain a bad place for the British to be?
(a) It opens them up to cavalry attacks.
(b) A fire could annihilate them.
(c) There is no good hiding places.
(d) Artillery can reach them easier.

14. Who helps the British drive the French out during the French's first attack at the village?
(a) The Highlanders and Warwicks.
(b) The Real Compañía Irlandesa.
(c) Hogans elite ranger force.
(d) Sharpe's greencoats.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who kills Juanita?

3. What does Loup tell Juanita to do when they reach Fuentes de Onoro?

4. What does Sharpe tell Donaju to do?

5. What does Kiely do when he learns about the change in his life?

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