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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is Cox?
(a) The English commander at Almeida.
(b) The English commander at Brest.
(c) The English commander at Brussels.
(d) The head of the Provosts in Peauqot.

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

5. Against what are the French well fortified?
(a) Heavy artillery.
(b) A sneak attack.
(c) Lancers.
(d) Riflemen.

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

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

8. Where does Harper say the gold is?
(a) In the manure.
(b) In El Catolico's wagon.
(c) With the fleeing French.
(d) He does not know.

9. Who wins a sword fighting duel with Sharpe?
(a) The Commander forbids them to duel.
(b) El Catolico.
(c) It is called a draw.
(d) Sharpe.

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

11. Who kills the French Colonel?
(a) A beautiful woman who is tied up.
(b) Sharpe.
(c) Kearsey.
(d) Harper.

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

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

14. Who reminds the men of their own mortality?
(a) Kelly.
(b) Teresa.
(c) Sharpe.
(d) Ramon.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Sharpe follow the beautiful woman they just rescued?

3. What does Harper say delays him?

4. Who are the only Spanish people fighting the war?

5. Who is Batten?

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