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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe do with the convent?
(a) He doesn't do anything with it.
(b) He spreads gunpowder around it.
(c) Decide to leave it.
(d) Fortify it for defense.

2. What religion is General Nairn?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Presbyterian.
(c) Angligan.
(d) Orthodox.

3. What does Sharpe think of the situation as he watches the action?
(a) If is all right.
(b) It is a draw.
(c) It is desperate.
(d) They will win eventually.

4. Why does Lord Farthingdale take command of the forces when he arrives?
(a) He wants his gold back.
(b) He wants to impress Josefina.
(c) He is the ranking person there.
(d) He hates Sharpe.

5. What does Sharpe think as he watches Farthington's preparations?
(a) Something is terrible amiss.
(b) It is to noisy outside.
(c) Farthingdale should not leave.
(d) There isn't enough food for a Christmas dinner.

6. What does Pot-au-Feu allow for the hostage women?
(a) Dubreton's wife is brought out.
(b) Dubreton is allowed to speak to his wife but can't see her.
(c) Lady Farthingdale is brought out.
(d) Nothing is done.

7. Why does the Colonel keep Lady Farthingdale safe?
(a) She bribes him with money.
(b) To be used as a hostage.
(c) He doesn't believe in harming civilians.
(d) So he can have her to himself.

8. What are the two leaders of the Andrados force doing when they talk to Sharpe?
(a) Raping young Spanish girls.
(b) Fondling semi-nude women.
(c) Torturing Hogan.
(d) Eating.

9. What happens as the British forces are scrambling over the castle's outer walls?
(a) Sharpe blows up the gunpowder around the wall.
(b) The defenders shoot at the attackers.
(c) A series of mines erupt.
(d) Josefina and Dubreton's wife escape.

10. How do the defenders of the castle appear to Sharpe?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Unconcerned.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Angry.

11. What does Dubreton's wife say to her husband?
(a) Tells him she loves him.
(b) Quotes poetry.
(c) Tells him she is being raped.
(d) Nothing she is not allowed to speak.

12. What is wrong physically with General Nairn at the beginning of the book?
(a) He has a broken arm.
(b) He has a cold.
(c) He has the flu.
(d) He has a headache.

13. What does Nairn decide about Sharpe's information?
(a) It is too little for any kind of judgment.
(b) The women must be rescued.
(c) Sharpe was incompetent.
(d) There is nothing that can be done.

14. What begins to arrive after Sharpe and his group have the hostages?
(a) Reinforcements.
(b) Some of the nuns from the convent.
(c) The men holding the town.
(d) Some of the townspeople who were hiding.

15. Who leads the company of mixed rifles going with Sharpe?
(a) Paddy O'Brien.
(b) Hewellt Galwind.
(c) Captain Johnson.
(d) William Frederickson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the troop Sharpe is now commanding sent there by the person in question #20?

2. What happens to Sharpe and his companions after they pledge to help each other?

3. What do the men defending the castle do?

4. Who summons Captain Sharpe in Chapter 1?

5. What lies on either side of the road that runs out of the pass?

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