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

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

3. How does Donaju feel about going to Cadiz?
(a) Curious.
(b) Happy.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Angry.

4. What does the person in question #130 have to prove?
(a) That Sharpe is a criminal.
(b) An English should not be in charge of Spaniards.
(c) That the Spanish soldiers will not obey the English.
(d) That Spain can hold its own against the French.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What will calling Sharpe to task do?

2. What are Sharpe and his men doing to aid the troops marching north?

3. What does Sharpe do when the young lieutenant is shot?

4. What does Donaju ask Sharpe about Kiely's suicide?

5. Who kills Juanita?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Kiely's reaction to Juanita being caught by Sharpe?

2. What do Hogan and Wellington decide about Sharpe and the battle at Isidoro?

3. What is Wellington doing when he realizes he has made a mistake, and what is that mistake?

4. Who and what does Sharpe find at a house in San Cristobal?

5. What type of superstitious action does Harper take?

6. How does Sharpe, Runciman, and the Real Compañía Irlandesa get involved in the battle for Fuentes de Onoro?

7. How does Massena react to the southern troops joining the northern ones and what does Wellington do after the army is reunited?

8. What does Hogan tell Wellington about the French and Almeida?

9. Why do the French call a temporary truce and what do two French and British officers do during the truce?

10. What does Loup do when he and his men first arrive at the village and what does he see that makes him disregard his assignment from Massena? What does he disregard his assignment?

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