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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the woman lead Sharpe to his men?
(a) The men find Sharpe.
(b) Around the west side of town.
(c) Through a trap door.
(d) Through several alleyways.

2. What does Sharpe's men have orders to do to pursuers?
(a) Strip and send back to the village.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Shoot to kill.
(d) Torture for information.

3. Why does Sharpe have suspicions about Kearsey?
(a) Because of Hogan.
(b) He seems shifty.
(c) He has a strange accent.
(d) He changes his story several times.

4. What does Harper relate to Knowles?
(a) That Sharpe is badly wounded from a duel with El Catolico.
(b) The story of Harper finding the gold.
(c) That several men are being questioned in the stockade.
(d) That El Catolico plans to ambush the company.

5. How many bags of gold do they find?
(a) 108.
(b) 39.
(c) 63.
(d) 22.

6. 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 kills the Polish lancer.
(c) When El Catolico pretends he knows no English.
(d) When El Catolico tries to make Teresa come with him.

7. Why is one of Sharpe's man left alive?
(a) He was cousin to one of the French soldiers.
(b) He hid out in the hayloft.
(c) Because he is a solider and must treated honorably.
(d) He told the French what they were doing.

8. What does Sharpe order Reid to do?
(a) Kill El Catolico.
(b) Guard Teresa.
(c) Take the wounded to safety.
(d) Go with Sharpe.

9. Why does Kearsey upbraid Sharpe?
(a) For running from the lancers.
(b) He doesn't upbraid Sharpe, he thanks him.
(c) For shooting at the pikemen.
(d) For rescuing Kearsey.

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

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

12. Where is most of the ammunition stored in Almeida?
(a) In several deep caves in the surrounding hills.
(b) The armory.
(c) A vault in the cemetary.
(d) The cathedral.

13. Who arrives for Sharpe to question?
(a) Ramon.
(b) Moreno.
(c) El Catolico.
(d) Teresa.

14. How is the morale of the forces aligned against Napoleon?
(a) Angry.
(b) Elated.
(c) Cautiously optimistic.
(d) Low and feeling as though the war is lost.

15. Where does Sharpe want to look for the gold?
(a) Under a large statue of a famous Spanish revolutionary.
(b) In El Catolico's wagon.
(c) Under the church's altar.
(d) In a grave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe think about El Catolico?

2. What does Sharpe risk in going back to look for the gold?

3. What does Sharpe find as he is digging in the grave?

4. What does Kearsey think he is doing?

5. How is Kearsey performance as a guide?

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