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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the only Spanish people fighting the war?
(a) Peasants.
(b) No one.
(c) The nobles.
(d) The merchant class.

2. How is Kearsey killed?
(a) He is shot by a French sharpshooter.
(b) He breaks his neck when he falls off his horse.
(c) He is surrounded by a regiment of Polish lancers and stabbed by several of them
(d) He is not killed by rather captured.

3. Who does El Catolico trust?
(a) Sharpe.
(b) Kearsey.
(c) Tereasa.
(d) Cox.

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

5. What pleases Knowles as he arrives at the manure pile?
(a) The sight of the gold.
(b) Seeing Teresa.
(c) The demonstration.
(d) Sharpe's report of the amount of gold.

6. What does Sharpe risk in going back to look for the gold?
(a) The wrath of the French and Spanish.
(b) That El Catolico will persuade Kearsey to deceive him.
(c) That there are still Partisans in the village.
(d) That Teresa will be harmed by the Partisans.

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

8. What does Keasey want to tell the Spanish?
(a) That Moreno plans to double cross them.
(b) That Sharpe plans to give the English the gold.
(c) That the British have arrived.
(d) That there is a large French force on the way.

9. Who points out the possible danger to Sharpe?
(a) Kearsey.
(b) Knowles.
(c) Teresa.
(d) El Catolico.

10. Who are Provosts?
(a) They are the support personnel.
(b) They are in the vanguard and responsible for reconnaissance.
(c) They are responsible for keeping the troops from pillaging the towns.
(d) They are French spies.

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

12. What do Sharpe and the Provosts pretend with each other?
(a) They are both working for the same side.
(b) They know each other.
(c) They are both on the winning side.
(d) Civility.

13. Where does Kearsey say the gold is hidden?
(a) It is not in the village.
(b) In a secret passageway in the fortress.
(c) In a vault in the graveyard.
(d) Under the hermitage in the Moreno family vault.

14. Where does Sharpe his men to go?
(a) Villanea.
(b) Casatejada.
(c) With him.
(d) Stay in the woods.

15. What is Harper's rank?
(a) Captain.
(b) Lieutenant.
(c) He is a civilian.
(d) Sargeant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does El Catolico do to the lancer?

2. Who are Robert Knowles and Patrick Harper?

3. To whom is Sharpe ordered to apologize?

4. What does Kearsey worry the Spanish will do if they do not receive the gold?

5. Why does Kearsey upbraid Sharpe?

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