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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what disaster are some of the men at the Fort at Ochagavia taking refuge?
(a) Kulm.
(b) Waterloo.
(c) Vitoria.
(d) Borodino.

2. Who commands the piquet on the south road?
(a) Captain Harper.
(b) Captain Smith.
(c) Captain Nicholls.
(d) Captain Southby.

3. What is the Bernard and Judy Cornwell Foundation?
(a) A place to teach young writers.
(b) He does not mention such a foundation.
(c) A way of connecting with other Sharpe fans.
(d) A charity.

4. What are the French desperate to escape?
(a) The Dutch.
(b) The Russians on their flank.
(c) Spain.
(d) The huge British army on their flank.

5. Where is a French garrison located?
(a) The Fort near Timcumpki.
(b) The Fort at Ochagavia.
(c) Isle de France.
(d) Somewhere north of Sharpe's men.

6. What does Sharpe send D'Alembord to do in the south?
(a) To ask for the surrender of the French garrison.
(b) To tell Smith to bring his soldiers to the North.
(c) To assess the situation in the South.
(d) To order Smith to attack the French garrison.

7. Who has sent for Sharpe?
(a) Colonel Gudin.
(b) Colonel Hogan.
(c) His wife.
(d) King George.

8. What does Cornwell say that characters sometimes do?
(a) Take a life of their own.
(b) Live long, peaceful lives after intense fighting as young adults.
(c) Evolve into someone different.
(d) Die when it seems unnecessary.

9. Why is Picard pleased that his men are miserable?
(a) He will look good when he solves their problem.
(b) He thinks they fight better that way.
(c) He thinks they need to be toughened up.
(d) He likes to share his own misery.

10. What does Gudin have to leave behind when a wagon breaks down?
(a) His dried flower collection.
(b) His books.
(c) His sword collection.
(d) His musical instruments.

11. Where are Sharpe's riflemen hidden?
(a) In trenches along the west side of the road.
(b) Among the rocks above the barrels.
(c) In a stand of trees.
(d) In Irati.

12. Why does Gudin not think the Sharpe he is about to encounter is the same one he met in India?
(a) The other Sharpe would be in his 70's now.
(b) He saw the other Sharpe killed.
(c) Few men rise through the rank to become officers in the British army.
(d) He does not know a Sharpe awaits the French.

13. Why does Sharpe have his men stationed fifty paces back from the frontier?
(a) They can take advantage of a bluff.
(b) The French have to march around them.
(c) The French cannot see them.
(d) The sun will not be in their eyes.

14. What does Caillou know Gudin will do?
(a) Waste his men's lives.
(b) Agree to leave Spain without their weapons.
(c) Keep his Eagle at any cost.
(d) Surrender.

15. Who is the Peer's Chief of Intelligence?
(a) Patrick Harper.
(b) Colonel Hogan.
(c) Richard Sharpe.
(d) Colonel Gudin.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what do the two men argue?

2. Who is CeCe Motz?

3. What does CeCe Mot do?

4. Whom does Sharpe order to advance when the French are only fifty paces away?

5. What does Sharpe order from Irati for his men?

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