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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 tell Sharpe about Sharpe's change in status?
(a) Wellington is demoting Sharpe back to enlisted.
(b) Sharpe will be attached permanently to the Real Compañía Irlandesa.
(c) Sharpe is being court-martialed.
(d) Sharpe is on administrative duties.

2. What does Massena tell Loup to do when Massena's bluecoats begin to clear the skyline?
(a) To push the troops the last few feet up the sloop.
(b) To clear the village of the dead.
(c) To hit the British on its northern flank.
(d) To take the middle of Fuentes de Onoro.

3. What excuse do Sharpe and Harper use to go to the village?
(a) See where to position his greencoats.
(b) See if the troops are in position.
(c) See if the troops need ammunition.
(d) Find out if the colonel wants his greencoats now.

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

5. To what staff does Tarrant belong?
(a) Tactics and strategy.
(b) Quartermaster.
(c) Artillery officer.
(d) Administration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will calling Sharpe to task do?

2. What do Sharpe and Harper do after the battle at the village?

3. What kind of pace do the troops in the south use to march north?

4. What did Hogan know about Juanita?

5. What does Sharpe say to Hogan about Sarsfield?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Hogan set up confronting Father Sarsfield?

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

4. 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?

5. What does Hogan say to Sharpe about letting Juanita go free?

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

7. What does Hogan say to Sarsfield?

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

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

10. Why is Sharpe being subjected to a board of inquiry?

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