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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was left in the town of Andrados due to a provisioning error?
(a) 2000 rifles.
(b) A huge supply of field rations.
(c) A huge amount of black powder.
(d) A room full of French uniforms.

2. What does Sharpe notice about the new weapons under his command?
(a) The way they will be slow to use.
(b) Their usefulness.
(c) Their potential and limitations.
(d) Their expense.

3. Why is Colonel Dubreton at Andrados?
(a) To kill Hakeswill.
(b) To ransom his wife.
(c) To capture Hogan.
(d) To kill Pot-au-Feu.

4. What does Sharpe receive from the person in question #14?
(a) A silver star.
(b) A reprimand.
(c) A letter from his wife.
(d) A promotion.

5. In what direction from the mountain pass is Andrados located?
(a) East.
(b) South.
(c) North.
(d) West.

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

7. What does Pot-au-Feu do about the gold Sharpe and Dubreton carry?
(a) He doesn't know they have it.
(b) He takes it and tells them it is not enough.
(c) He confiscates it.
(d) He trades it for allowing them to go free.

8. What is Sharpe told is the estimated number of men that Pot-au-Feu has with him?
(a) 1000 to 2000.
(b) 150 to 1000.
(c) 400 to 2000.
(d) 700 to 1500.

9. What does Nairn tell Sharpe at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) That Hogan has been taken capture.
(b) About the capture of Andrados.
(c) That his brother has been killed.
(d) That sergeant Hakeswill is in the area.

10. What does Sharpe notice as he is in the convent?
(a) The fact that there are no nuns to be seen.
(b) Its structure and tactical points.
(c) That it is barely standing.
(d) The lack of religious artifacts.

11. What is the name of General Nairn's valet?
(a) Farnsdale.
(b) Bumley.
(c) Whetherby.
(d) Chatsworth.

12. What day is it when Sharpe has secured the convent?
(a) Thanksgiving.
(b) Easter.
(c) New Year's Day.
(d) Christmas Eve.

13. What is being done to a woman with a hot iron?
(a) She is being branded on her breasts.
(b) Nothing.
(c) She is having her fingers burned.
(d) A long scar is put on her face.

14. What lies on either side of the road that runs out of the pass?
(a) Waterfalls and a fortress.
(b) A fortress and sheer cliffs.
(c) A river and a convent.
(d) A fortress and a convent.

15. Why doesn't Lord Farthingdale marry Josefina?
(a) She is too far beneath him.
(b) He doesn't think of her that way.
(c) She is already married.
(d) He is already married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Josefina say about Lord Farthingdale and her past?

2. Why has Lady Farthingdale come to Andrados?

3. What do Sharpe and Harper look at when surveying the convent?

4. Why did the Peer choose Frenada as winter headquarters?

5. Where does Sharpe go when he arrives at Andrados?

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