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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 does Nairn order Sharpe to do in Chapter 3?
(a) Find Hogan.
(b) Go home for his brother's funeral.
(c) Go to Andrados and scout the area.
(d) Go arrest or kill Hakeswill.

2. Where does the army that conquered Andrados go when they finish subduing the town?
(a) No where, they settle in for winter.
(b) It doesn't say where they go.
(c) They go to meet up with the Spanish guerrillas.
(d) They go to meet up with other French forces.

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

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

5. Who is Lady Farthingdale in reality?
(a) The wife of another lord.
(b) A French spy.
(c) A prostitute.
(d) A Spanish noblewoman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nairn decide about Sharpe's information?

2. What kind of wound does Farthingdale receive?

3. What does Sharpe discover about Hakeswill after the convent is secured?

4. What is the name of General Nairn's valet?

5. What does Nairn tell Sharpe at the beginning of Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Sharpe and Harper notice about the basement in the convent?

2. What happens to the British forces as they scramble over the castle walls?

3. How important is Andrados, where it is situated and what types of protections are in place around it?

4. What does Nairn tell Sharpe when he is summoned in Chapter 3?

5. Who is Spain at war with and how is the country divided?

6. Why is Lady Farthingdale at Andrados, who is with her and what happens to them?

7. What does Farthingdale do when he is injured and what does Sharpe see after he does it?

8. What is happening in Andrados at the beginning of the novel and who is doing it?

9. What happens when Frederickson shows up at the convent?

10. What do Pot-au-Feu and Hakeswill suggest to Sharpe and the others and what are they doing while they talk?

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