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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 is different about the way the Highlanders and the 88th. Irish attack the French on the slopes?
(a) They do it in utter silence.
(b) They do not stop for a customery volley first.
(c) They are rolling boulders before them.
(d) They have not fixed bayonets.

2. How many French soldiers are in Almeida?
(a) 2,500.
(b) 500.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 1,500.

3. What does Sharpe explain to Tarrant?
(a) That Juanita had carried the false newspapers.
(b) Politics.
(c) How the French attacked the village.
(d) Morality.

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

5. What are Sharpe and his riflemen doing when they are moving south?
(a) Heading to Fuentes de Onoro.
(b) Rescuing the seventh division.
(c) Supporting the Highlander and Warwick units.
(d) Escorting ammunition.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Massena sends in ten fresh battalions what is the fight over?

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

4. What does Wellington think about his decision to send part of his army south?

5. What does Wellington abandon when his forces are united?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Wellington enraged with Erkins?

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

4. What does Hogan say to Sarsfield?

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

6. How do Sharpe and his men help the southern troops?

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

8. What type of superstitious action does Harper take?

9. What does Sharpe do when he hears Loup shouting out commands in the battle and what do the soldiers around them do?

10. How does Hogan set up confronting Father Sarsfield?

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