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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Historical Note.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they discover when they look for the gold?
(a) It is no longer where Kearsey thought it was.
(b) It is far less than Kearsey had indicated.
(c) It is mostly silver.
(d) It is iron bars painted to look like gold.

2. Who saved Lawford's life seven years earlier?
(a) Ayres.
(b) Harper.
(c) Knowles.
(d) Sharpe.

3. What is one thing that makes Sharpe suspect El Catolico?
(a) When El Catolico lies about how many Partisans were fighting.
(b) When El Catolico pretends he knows no English.
(c) When El Catolico kills the Polish lancer.
(d) When El Catolico tries to make Teresa come with him.

4. What is being built for which they needed the gold so badly?
(a) Several new frigates.
(b) The gold is for paying soldiers, not building.
(c) The Lines of Torres Vedras.
(d) A new fort near the French border.

5. What do the Partisans do?
(a) Shoot Cox.
(b) Pull a sneak attack.
(c) Shoot El Catolico.
(d) Leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives for Sharpe to question?

2. How does Sharpe kill El Catolico?

3. Who does El Catolico trust?

4. What does El Catolico do to the lancer?

5. Who holds the fort at Almeida?

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