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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kearsey think he is doing?
(a) Giving Sharpe assistance in holding Almeida.
(b) Helping Sharpe sort through the various factions at the fortress.
(c) Helping Sharpe deliver gold to the Spanish.
(d) He's not sure.

2. What does El Catolico plan to do?
(a) Kill Ramon.
(b) Kill Sharpe.
(c) Set up Sharpe's company.
(d) Help Almeida.

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

4. How is Kearsey killed?
(a) He is surrounded by a regiment of Polish lancers and stabbed by several of them
(b) He is not killed by rather captured.
(c) He breaks his neck when he falls off his horse.
(d) He is shot by a French sharpshooter.

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

6. Why does Kearsey upbraid Sharpe?
(a) For running from the lancers.
(b) He doesn't upbraid Sharpe, he thanks him.
(c) For shooting at the pikemen.
(d) For rescuing Kearsey.

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

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

9. What is Moreno's connection to Casatejada?
(a) He is a fugitive and wanted there.
(b) No connection.
(c) He used to own a great deal of land there.
(d) He was born there.

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

11. Who does Sharpe take as a hostage?
(a) Knowles.
(b) Teresa.
(c) El Catolico.
(d) Hardy.

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

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

14. How do the men feel as they are being escorted across the terrain by the Partisans?
(a) Like prisoners.
(b) Suspicious.
(c) Elated that they are about to complete their mission.
(d) Exhausted.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sharpe find as he is digging in the grave?

3. Who wins a sword fighting duel with Sharpe?

4. Of what does Kearsey deny knowledge?

5. Who is Joaquim Jovellanos?

(see the answer keys)

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