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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is killed in the explosion about whom Sharpe is glad?
(a) El Catolico.
(b) Helmet.
(c) Moreno.
(d) Cox.

2. Who is in Lisbon?
(a) Lucy.
(b) Marion.
(c) Teresa.
(d) Josefina.

3. What does Teresa notice in Sharpe's pocket?
(a) A locket.
(b) A ring.
(c) A bracelet.
(d) A letter.

4. What were the Partisan's role in real history as far as the explosion at Almeida?
(a) They helped fight the French before the explosion.
(b) They are assumed to be the cause of the explosion.
(c) They left Almeida before the explosion.
(d) It is not mentioned if they had a role.

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

6. Who was in charge in "real" life of Almeida?
(a) Captain Lossow.
(b) Captain Hardy.
(c) Brigadier Cox.
(d) Brigadier Sharpe.

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

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

9. Where does Sharpe go after the cathedral?
(a) To meet with Moreno.
(b) The trenches.
(c) Cox's office.
(d) The bakery.

10. Where do the hill fortifications run?
(a) Tagus to Massena.
(b) From the Atlantic to Tagus.
(c) Atlantic to Lisbon.
(d) Atlantic to Brussels.

11. Who does Sharpe say he will slowly dismember?
(a) El Catolico.
(b) Ramon.
(c) Teresa.
(d) Moreno.

12. Who is helping to keep the gold from Cox's men?
(a) Garrard.
(b) Helmet.
(c) Moons.
(d) Harper.

13. What does Sharpe tell Kearsey about who killed Hardy?
(a) Sharpe's men by accident.
(b) The Spanish.
(c) Some bandits.
(d) The French.

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

15. What is the purpose of the historical notes?
(a) No reason is given.
(b) A offer validity to the account of Almeida.
(c) For historical information.
(d) For students to learn what really happened.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe say is the cause of the scars on his back?

2. How much damage is done with the explosion?

3. What was Richard Sharpe's role in "real" history?

4. Why do Sharpe, Teresa, and Harper get in the bread ovens?

5. Who brings a barrel of gunpowder?

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