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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the soldiers doing while Sharpe surveys the convent?
(a) Cleaning their weapons.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Eating.
(d) Celebrating.

3. What type of terrain does Sharpe have to cross to get to Andrados?
(a) A mountain pass.
(b) An open plain.
(c) A swampy land.
(d) Forests.

4. Where do Pot-au-Feu's forces remain?
(a) In the gatehouse.
(b) Around the convent.
(c) Out of sight in the hills.
(d) In the village.

5. What does Sharpe see in the convent?
(a) Debauchery and abuse of prisoners.
(b) Sleeping men.
(c) Drunk men.
(d) Dead women.

6. Who summons Captain Sharpe in Chapter 1?
(a) Major Hogan.
(b) General Nairn.
(c) Colonel Johnson.
(d) Viscount Wellington.

7. What nationality is General Nairn?
(a) Scottish.
(b) British.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Irish.

8. What do the two leaders of the Andrados force attempt to do with Sharpe and his companions?
(a) Recruit them.
(b) Get intelligence from them.
(c) Shock them.
(d) Kill them.

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

10. What do Sharpe and Harper look at when surveying the convent?
(a) The beautiful art.
(b) Look at it for tactical defense.
(c) For any tunnel out of the convent.
(d) Where the nuns might be hidden.

11. What does the army that conquered Andrados do in the town?
(a) Burn it down.
(b) Make all the residents leave.
(c) Sack and loot it.
(d) Kill all the residents.

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

13. What does Lord Farthingdale do after he assumes command?
(a) Makes poor decisions.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Argues with Sharpe about tactics.
(d) Gets mildly drunk.

14. What does Nairn give Sharpe to take to Andrados?
(a) A large amount of gold.
(b) A map for where Hogan is being held prisoner.
(c) Four horses.
(d) A sharpshooter squad to kill Hakeswill.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe think of the situation as he watches the action?

2. What was left in the town of Andrados due to a provisioning error?

3. Why doesn't Lord Farthingdale marry Josefina?

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

5. Where does the army that conquered Andrados go when they finish subduing the town?

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