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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 Robert Crauford's nickname?
(a) Pistol Pete.
(b) Binger.
(c) Robotic.
(d) Black Bob.

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

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

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

5. In what condition are most of the men to whom Sharpe talks in the timber yard?
(a) High.
(b) Drunk.
(c) Exhausted.
(d) Depressed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Simmerson think should have been given command of the British forces?

2. What do Sharpe and Josephina see piled up by a tree?

3. Who does Sharpe hear has been shot, but is still alive?

4. Why can't Sharpe and his men see much of the battlefield?

5. Sharpe spends his time working on what before the flogging?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sharpe disagree so strongly with Simmerson flogging his men?

2. Describe the fight in Chapter Twenty-one.

3. How does Sharpe prepare for battle at the beginning of Chapter Seventeen?

4. How does Sharpe get Berry alone?

5. What problems have the Spanish caused the British in this section?

6. Why is Sharpe worried about Gibbons in this section?

7. Why is Hogan worried about Sharpe in this section?

8. What is Wellesley's opinion of the Spanish?

9. Why does Sharpe worry about Josephina's safety in this section?

10. What does Sharpe think about Josephina in the Epilogue?

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