View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Sharpe gasp as he is watching the battle with Wellington?
(a) He sees Juanita.
(b) He sees some of his greencoats being ambushed.
(c) He sees the grey wolf banner.
(d) He sees the young lieutenant overrun.

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

3. What does Sharpe think the French will do if the French believe they are surrounded?
(a) They will form up a wedge.
(b) They will bring in artillery.
(c) They will bolt.
(d) They will surrender.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the item Harper picked up at after the battle?

2. Why is the open plain a bad place for the British to be?

3. What will Runciman be doing when he leaves Spain?

4. About what does Donaju complain to Sharpe?

5. Where does Sharpe find Juanita de Elia in San Cristobal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Valverde's argument about Sharpe?

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

3. How does the second large battle for Fuentes de Onoro start and which British troops are involved?

4. What type of superstitious action does Harper take?

5. What does Hogan say to Sarsfield?

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

7. What do the French do at the church in Nave de Haver?

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

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. How are the southern British troops threatened and what do they do about it?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 944 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample