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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who arrives for Sharpe to question?
(a) El Catolico.
(b) Teresa.
(c) Moreno.
(d) Ramon.

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

3. How does Kearsey fall off his horse?
(a) A bird startles the horse.
(b) He is shot by a French archer.
(c) He is accidentally shot by the Spanish.
(d) He is stabbed by a Polish lancer.

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

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

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

7. What does Harper relate to Knowles?
(a) That Sharpe is badly wounded from a duel with El Catolico.
(b) The story of Harper finding the gold.
(c) That several men are being questioned in the stockade.
(d) That El Catolico plans to ambush the company.

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

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

10. What does Lieutenant Ayres do?
(a) Kills one of Sharpe's men.
(b) Argues with Sharpe about the war.
(c) Shoots at Sharpe from behind a barndoor.
(d) Catches one of Sharpe's men with a chicken.

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

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

13. What does Colonel Williams express?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Hostility.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Indignation.

14. Who do they use to find their way through the dark?
(a) A dog.
(b) Kearsey.
(c) Hagman.
(d) Harper.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Against what are the French well fortified?

2. Where is most of the ammunition stored in Almeida?

3. Of what does Kearsey deny knowledge?

4. Where do Harper and Sharpe go to rescue Kearsey?

5. What does Sharpe worry about on his men's approach to the village?

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