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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 Teresa plan to do next?
(a) Stay with her daughter.
(b) Go to England.
(c) Begin fighting the French.
(d) Return to Madrid.

2. How does Lawford appear when Sharpe comes upon him while going into the city?
(a) Mangled.
(b) He has a cut on his head that is bleeding.
(c) He has a minor injury.
(d) He is dead.

3. What worries Sharpe about Lawford?
(a) His son was killed in the battle.
(b) That he is being transferred.
(c) He's missing in action.
(d) The he won't survive.

4. What would the capture of Badajoz do for the British?
(a) Give them access to Paris.
(b) Put them on a navigable river.
(c) Open up the Spanish frontier.
(d) Double the British supplies.

5. Where is Teresa's daughter staying?
(a) At Teresa's mother's house.
(b) At a convent.
(c) At her uncle's house.
(d) At her sister's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what type of terms did Teresa and Sharpe part?

2. What does Lawford tell Sharpe about his assignment?

3. What do Hogan and Sharpe first discuss when they meet in Chapter 1?

4. In Chapter 8, what begins to arrive for the battalion?

5. What do Colonel Lawford and Sharpe discuss in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Sharpe worried following the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in Chapter 5?

2. What is Sharpe's new assignment he receives from Windham and what does he ask Windham? How does Windham respond?

3. What is Lawford and Sharpe's relationship and how do they interact?

4. Why might Badajoz be difficult to capture? Has anyone ever tried to capture it?

5. Who reports to Sharpe when reinforcements arrive for the battalion, what mistake does he make and what does he do after he is corrected?

6. Who does Sharpe see in the new replacements that throws him off and what happens when he sees that person? How does he feel about the encounter?

7. What siege does Sharpe participate in at the beginning of Chapter 1 and how does he pass his time when not fighting?

8. What does Teresa confess to Sharpe?

9. Describe Hakeswill's first encounter with Teresa in the stables.

10. What does Sharpe do right after the conclusion of the battle at Ciudad Rodrigo?

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