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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Sharpe ask his troops to gather in ChapterFifteen?
(a) The hospital tent.
(b) The timber yard.
(c) The car park.
(d) His lodgings.

2. Who does Sharpe hear has been shot, but is still alive?
(a) Lawford.
(b) Knowles.
(c) Harper.
(d) Gibbons.

3. What does Wellesley say is worse than no army?
(a) A ghost army.
(b) An insane army.
(c) An exhausted army.
(d) A starving army.

4. Why does Simmerson want to destroy the British forces apart from his own troops?
(a) To create his own guerilla army.
(b) For revenge.
(c) To get his command.
(d) To prove a point.

5. What does Simmerson say will happen to sixty men at 6pm?
(a) They will be shot.
(b) They will be flogged.
(c) They will be sent home.
(d) They will be sent out scouting.

6. What have the Spanish decided to do rather than fight?
(a) Drink.
(b) Make friends.
(c) Eat.
(d) Sleep.

7. Which of the following don't the British and French trade in this section?
(a) Wine.
(b) Brandy.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Tobacco.

8. Why does Sharpe order Denny not to join him?
(a) He is injured.
(b) He has French parents.
(c) So he can meet his newly-born child.
(d) So he can experience his seventeenth birthday.

9. How does Sharpe prevent the French from attacking in Chapter Nineteen?
(a) He screams to alert the British.
(b) He shoots his musket to alert the British.
(c) He tricks them into believing they have been spotted.
(d) He kills the lead French officer.

10. What eventually helps the French to advance on the British in this section?
(a) They shoot General Hill.
(b) The Spanish run away.
(c) A reserve French force.
(d) The British run out of cannonballs.

11. What does Hogan think will happen to Sharpe if he kills Gibbons and Berry?
(a) He will be executed.
(b) He will be promoted.
(c) He will be lashed.
(d) He will be sent to prison.

12. What is the name of Josephina's servant?
(a) Horace.
(b) Lucifer.
(c) Agostino.
(d) Achilles.

13. What is Harper's first name?
(a) Hamish.
(b) Dougal.
(c) Patrick.
(d) Dermot.

14. What is the name of the Spanish general?
(a) Domingez.
(b) Camilo.
(c) Cuesta.
(d) Escribiano.

15. What are the French and British supposed to be doing during the trading?
(a) Collecting their dead and wounded.
(b) Writing home to their families.
(c) Shooting each other.
(d) Preparing a meal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Crauford say should not marry?

2. What is the name of Sharpe's company?

3. What does Sharpe say will happen to the men if they mutiny?

4. Who does Sharpe first tell about Berry's death?

5. What is Sharpe holding to Berry's neck at the beginning of Chapter Twenty?

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