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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. To whom is Sharpe ordered to apologize?
(a) Ayres.
(b) Wellington.
(c) Knowles.
(d) Lawford.

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

6. Who are tied to two horses coming out of town?
(a) Two women.
(b) Two naked Spanish peasants.
(c) Naked French soldiers.
(d) No one.

7. What worries Sharpe?
(a) Knowles report and Teresa's attitude.
(b) The loss of their horses.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The emplacements on the opposite bank.

8. Who is Lieutenant Colonel William Lawford?
(a) The commander of the Provosts.
(b) Sharpe's brother-in-law.
(c) Sharpe's commander.
(d) The commander of the 9th heavy artillery.

9. Who do Harper and Sharpe capture?
(a) A Spanish interpreter.
(b) A Polish General.
(c) A German artillery man.
(d) A Polish lancer.

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

11. To what does El Catolico admit?
(a) Leading the Partisans in a circle.
(b) Killing Hardy.
(c) Using one bag of gold.
(d) Killing Moreno.

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

13. How is the fighting between the Spanish peasants and the French?
(a) The peasants don't fight.
(b) They are not fighting.
(c) The French just mow the peasants down.
(d) Vicious.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Kearsey say the gold is hidden?

2. What does Colonel Williams express?

3. Why does Kearsey halt the group outside Casatejada?

4. Why wouldn't the Partisans buried a man on Sunday?

5. What does Sharpe do with the Spanish?

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