2. Why is Sharpe pleased?
(a) Because Harper has an excellent plan to rescue Kearsey.
(b) Because Teresa is in the village.
(c) Because El Catolico asks for a meeting.
(d) Because Kearsey is not chained in an obscure location.

3. How do the men feel as they are being escorted across the terrain by the Partisans?
(a) Like prisoners.
(b) Exhausted.
(c) Suspicious.
(d) Elated that they are about to complete their mission.

4. Who is Batten?
(a) The mayor of the town the regiment is marching through.
(b) A friend of Sharpe's who arrives to give Sharpe new orders.
(c) A good friend of Lieutenant Ayres.
(d) The man Ayres catches.

5. Who must approve Sharpe's promotion?
(a) The King.
(b) The Prince of Orange.
(c) The Horse Guards in Whitehall.
(d) The Duke of Wellington.

6. Who is El Catolico marrying?
(a) Moreno's daughter.
(b) Sharpe's sister.
(c) Cadiz's daugther.
(d) Knowles' sister.

7. Who is Ramon?
(a) A man who is nailed to the wall.
(b) Harper's best friend besides Sharpe.
(c) A man who knows where the gold is.
(d) Sharpe's quartermaster.

8. What does Lieutenant Ayres do?
(a) Argues with Sharpe about the war.
(b) Catches one of Sharpe's men with a chicken.
(c) Kills one of Sharpe's men.
(d) Shoots at Sharpe from behind a barndoor.

9. How is Kearsey performance as a guide?
(a) Excellent.
(b) Haphazard.
(c) Unrealistic.
(d) Bungling.

10. What does Sharpe admit to Wellington?
(a) Ordering his men to help with the harvest.
(b) Threatening Ayres with a rifle.
(c) Telling Harper he could have leave.
(d) Nothing.

11. Who is dead in the village?
(a) A few peasants, but most of the villagers are alive.
(b) No one.
(c) All the mercenary soldiers but none of the villagers.
(d) Every man, woman, child and animal except one man.

12. What is Moreno's connection to Casatejada?
(a) He is a fugitive and wanted there.
(b) He used to own a great deal of land there.
(c) He was born there.
(d) No connection.

13. Who is Joaquim Jovellanos?
(a) Teresa's fiance.
(b) El Catolico.
(c) Moreno's bodyguard.
(d) The second in command of the Partisans.

14. To what does Teresa admit?
(a) That El Catolico killed Hardy.
(b) That the French have more gold.
(c) That there is much more gold in the village.
(d) That El Catolico killed Moreno.

15. How does Kearsey fall off his horse?
(a) He is stabbed by a Polish lancer.
(b) He is shot by a French archer.
(c) He is accidentally shot by the Spanish.
(d) A bird startles the horse.