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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 do when the young lieutenant is shot?
(a) Goes and gets the colonel.
(b) Has Harper take him to the surgeon's area.
(c) Regroup the men.
(d) Withdraws the lieutenant's men.

2. What part of his army did Wellington send south?
(a) The fifth division.
(b) The Warwicks and the Highlanders.
(c) The seventh division.
(d) The 307th. greencoat battalion.

3. Who wants to become Generalissimo of Spain?
(a) El Castrador.
(b) Count de la Phillipe.
(c) Valverde.
(d) Wellington.

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

5. Why is the open plain a bad place for the British to be?
(a) There is no good hiding places.
(b) It opens them up to cavalry attacks.
(c) Artillery can reach them easier.
(d) A fire could annihilate them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wellington see when overlooking Fuentes de Onoro?

2. How does Massena feel when the British in the south join the northern force?

3. What does Harper see lying in the dirt that he picks up?

4. What excuse do Sharpe and Harper use to go to the village?

5. What does Loup tell Juanita to do when they reach Fuentes de Onoro?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of superstitious action does Harper take?

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

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

4. How does Sharpe kill Loup and how is Sharpe wounded?

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

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

7. What is Valverde's argument about Sharpe?

8. What do Sharpe and Hogan agree on after Sharpe shoots Sarsfield and what do they do?

9. What does Sharpe persuade Harper to do and why?

10. What does Hogan say to Sarsfield?

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