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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What really blew up?
(a) The mayor's house at Almeida.
(b) The French ammunition dump.
(c) The Lines of Torres.
(d) The cathedral at Almeida.

2. How does Sharpe feel after talking to Cox?
(a) Desperate.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Confused.
(d) Angry.

3. What was Richard Sharpe's role in "real" history?
(a) He did not exist.
(b) He commanded Wellington's army after Wellinton feel ill.
(c) He was a corporal.
(d) He was assigned as an engineer to building the fortifications.

4. Where do they move Sharpe's company?
(a) To Brussels.
(b) To a safer area.
(c) No where.
(d) To Germany.

5. What does Sharpe learn when the messages arrive?
(a) There is one for him from Wellington.
(b) That he is ordered to turn the gold over to Cox.
(c) There are three for him.
(d) His is not there.

6. Who are firing on the French?
(a) No one.
(b) Wellington's heavy artillery.
(c) The Partisans.
(d) The Portuguese gunners.

7. Who are ahead of Sharpe at the end of the day?
(a) The Spanish army.
(b) Wellington's army.
(c) The French.
(d) No one.

8. What is Sharpe hating to think about doing?
(a) Killing Cox.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Leaving Teresa.
(d) Blowing up the fort.

9. What are they debating in the opening to chapter 23?
(a) How to defend Almeida.
(b) Whether to hang El Catolico.
(c) Whether to hogtie Cox.
(d) How to get out of Almeida to Wellington safely.

10. Why do Sharpe, Teresa, and Harper get in the bread ovens?
(a) To hide from Cox.
(b) To hide the gold.
(c) The French shells have set off the gunpowder prematurely.
(d) They do not get in the bread ovens.

11. About whom does Hogan ask?
(a) El Catolico.
(b) Josefina.
(c) Teresa.
(d) Harper.

12. Where do Sharpe and Teresa wake up?
(a) San Anton's courtyard.
(b) Brest.
(c) Somewhere in France.
(d) Maderia.

13. What does Sharpe say is the cause of the scars on his back?
(a) A fall off a cliff.
(b) A mountain lion attack.
(c) Liars.
(d) Torture by the French.

14. Who actually gets in a bread oven?
(a) A soldier.
(b) The baker.
(c) A young boy and his sister.
(d) A family of four.

15. What would they have to hold out for in order to not be overrun?
(a) A truce.
(b) The rains.
(c) Wellington's army.
(d) The snows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Sharpe been told about the gold?

2. How does Sharpe kill El Catolico?

3. How much damage is done with the explosion?

4. What day did this explosion occur?

5. What does Sharpe think has to be done to the Fortress of Almeida?

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