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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Sharpe find Juanita de Elia in San Cristobal?
(a) In a house with chimney smoke.
(b) In the mayor's basement.
(c) In the stables.
(d) In the bath house.

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

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

5. What will calling Sharpe to task do?
(a) Show the troops war crimes will not be tolerated.
(b) Prove the British care about foreign troops.
(c) Show the French the upper echelons do not kill prisoners.
(d) Show other officers that are responsible for their men.

6. How does Massena react towards the split British army?
(a) Angry.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Curious.
(d) Gloating.

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

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

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

10. Why is Massena frustrated with the British troops northward march?
(a) They block his route to Fuentes de Onoro.
(b) They have taken out much of the French artillery.
(c) He wants to personally kill Wellington.
(d) His cavalry cannot attack them.

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

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

13. 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 hopes the French do as poor a job.
(c) He thinks the French do not have the equivalent position.
(d) He knows the man who holds his position in the French army.

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

15. Where is the item Harper picked up at after the battle?
(a) He left it in a French soldier.
(b) It is under a rock.
(c) In a puddle of blood.
(d) He lost it at the surgeon's area.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helps the British drive the French out during the French's first attack at the village?

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

3. How would Wellington withdraw if he lost at Almeida?

4. About what does Donaju complain to Sharpe?

5. Why does the person in question #130 blame San Isidoro on Sharpe?

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