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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the French leave San Isidoro?
(a) Two ammunition wagons blow up.
(b) Loup is wounded.
(c) The Portuguese outflank them.
(d) British reinforcements arrive.

2. What does Sharpe leave on the ridge when he orders his men into the village?
(a) Their equipment.
(b) Their horses.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Sharpshooters.

3. What does Sharpe do as Loup is leaving?
(a) Throws a rock at Loup's horse.
(b) Tells Loup he is going to kill him.
(c) Gives him a two finger salute.
(d) Hits him in the face.

4. What goes over a cliff in Harper's story?
(a) A bullock.
(b) A lamb.
(c) A horse.
(d) His wagon.

5. Why does Sharpe meet with Colonel Oliveira?
(a) Oliveira has information about Loup.
(b) Sharpe is good friends with Oliveira's brother.
(c) Oliveira is the Portuguese's commander.
(d) Oliveira is the new commander of the Real Compañía Irlandesa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who talks to Sharpe about a morale problem?

2. Who is with the Portuguese that Sharpe knows?

3. What does Sharpe ask El Castrador?

4. Why does Sharpe think the men desert?

5. How do they know who the man is who saved them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sharpe find out from Donaju about Kiely?

2. What does Sharpe see when they arrive at the village where Loup is supposed to be and what does Sharpe do there?

3. How does the Portuguese battalion arrive, with whom does Sharpe meet, what kind of man is he and why is the battalion there?

4. What is Sharpe ordered to do with the Real and why?

5. What does Kiely tell Sharpe about the French and about his men?

6. Who is with the Portuguese and why is Sharpe happy about that?

7. What is Juanita's job with the Real Compañía Irlandesa?

8. What does Sharpe asks El Castrador about the village where Loup is and who goes there with Sharpe?

9. What does Sharpe suggest Donaju do about the problem with the troops?

10. What is in the letter from the Spanish king to General Wellington that upsets him?

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