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

3. 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.

4. How is Sharpe's morale?
(a) He is happy and completely optimistic not just about the war but about life in general.
(b) He is despondent and sure the war is lost.
(c) About the same as the others around him.
(d) Not the same as the others around him.

5. What does Harper say delays him?
(a) Slipping in the manure.
(b) Spaining his ankle in a hole.
(c) Investigating a scream.
(d) A lone Frenchman.

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

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

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

9. What does El Catolico say he will do to Sharpe's men?
(a) Report them.
(b) Reward them.
(c) Lead them on a shortcut.
(d) Kill them.

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

11. Who does Sharpe recognize as the leader of the Spanish forces fighting the French?
(a) Kearsey.
(b) General Matiz.
(c) El Liberato.
(d) El Catolico.

12. What is Sharpe's quest?
(a) To discover who is leaking intelligence to the French.
(b) To find his wife he left him.
(c) To find gold to help finance the war.
(d) To discover who is killing soliders randomly in their sleep.

13. What does Sharpe do with the Spanish?
(a) Lock them up.
(b) Kill them.
(c) Leave them in the village after receiving their parole.
(d) Send them to Madrid after Hardy.

14. What does El Catolico do to the lancer?
(a) Slits his throat.
(b) Stabs him through the heart with his sword.
(c) Smashes him in the face.
(d) Spits on him.

15. Why does Sharpe have his men make as much noise as possible?
(a) To alert Kearsey.
(b) To alert the Portuguese.
(c) To scare the partisians.
(d) To startle the French.