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

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

3. About what does Sharpe lecture Donaju?
(a) The men of the Real Compañía Irlandesa not being ready to fight.
(b) A soldier's duty.
(c) How important ammunition is in battle.
(d) The immorality of suicide.

4. What does Loup tell the men about the wounded?
(a) To finish them off with a mercy stroke.
(b) To ignore them.
(c) To take them to the waiting French surgeons.
(d) Not to be gentle with them.

5. What are Sharpe and his men doing to aid the troops marching north?
(a) They use caltrops to slow the cavalry.
(b) They are interspersed in the troops.
(c) Killing cavalry officers and horses.
(d) They are not in the south.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe see when looking at the French?

2. What formation is difficult for cavalry to attack?

3. Why is Sharpe feeling bitter and defeated after the first battle at the village?

4. What part of his army did Wellington send south?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where are the Spanish partisans set up to watch the southern flank and what happens to them?

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

3. Why is Wellington enraged with Erkins?

4. How does Harper's superstitious action turn out?

5. How does Hogan set up confronting Father Sarsfield?

6. What do Hogan and Wellington talk about as far as Almeida is concerned?

7. Who do Sharpe and Harper join in the first battle for the village and what happens to that person?

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

9. Who are the three soldiers in charge of ammunition distribution? Why are two of the soldiers on that duty and what are their names?

10. What does Hogan say to Sarsfield?

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