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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Kearsey worry the Spanish will do if they do not receive the gold?
(a) Pull out of the territories they are holding.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Refuse to support the British.
(d) Attack British isolated pockets of troops.

4. With what is Ramon impressed?
(a) El Catolico's sword work.
(b) The way Sharpe fights.
(c) Sharpe's Riflemen company.
(d) The way Sharpe fought off half a dozen men to save Teresa.

5. Who is Major Kearsey?
(a) Sharpe's contact in Almeida.
(b) Sharpe's contact in Brest.
(c) Wellington's contact in Brussels.
(d) The head of the Provosts.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Sharpe think about El Catolico?
(a) He is not native Spanish.
(b) He is a good ally.
(c) He is trouble.
(d) He seems a man of high honor.

11. How does Sharpe know the French are leaving?
(a) They are forming into companies.
(b) They are loading mules.
(c) They are not leaving.
(d) They are torching the village.

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

13. Who is El Catolico marrying?
(a) Cadiz's daugther.
(b) Knowles' sister.
(c) Moreno's daughter.
(d) Sharpe's sister.

14. Why wouldn't the Partisans buried a man on Sunday?
(a) Because Sunday is always reserved for baptisms rather than buriels.
(b) Because of their religious beliefs.
(c) They do bury people on Sundays.
(d) Because they would think it was bad luck.

15. What is one thing that makes Sharpe suspect El Catolico?
(a) When El Catolico tries to make Teresa come with him.
(b) When El Catolico lies about how many Partisans were fighting.
(c) When El Catolico pretends he knows no English.
(d) When El Catolico kills the Polish lancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Sharpe recognize as the leader of the Spanish forces fighting the French?

2. How is the fighting between the Spanish peasants and the French?

3. What worries Sharpe?

4. Who is Cox?

5. Who arrives for Sharpe to question?

(see the answer keys)

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