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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the real cause of the explosion?
(a) A French shell.
(b) It is unknown.
(c) A careless fire.
(d) A careless pipe smoker.

3. Why can the commander of the Portuguese not help Sharpe?
(a) He does not believe Sharpe.
(b) He does not say.
(c) He is under orders to do contrary to what Sharpe wants.
(d) He and his men are returning to Wellington.

4. Who rescues Sharpe and his men?
(a) Wellington.
(b) Captain Lossow.
(c) No one.
(d) The Partisans.

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

6. What do the Partisans do?
(a) Pull a sneak attack.
(b) Leave.
(c) Shoot Cox.
(d) Shoot El Catolico.

7. What does Sharpe notice as he leaves his sleeping quarters?
(a) That the French have left in the night.
(b) That the siege has started.
(c) That the Spanish have joined the French.
(d) That the siege has not yet started.

8. With what is Massena having problems?
(a) With supplies.
(b) With French spies infiltrating.
(c) With a surfeit of recruits.
(d) With deserters.

9. What do the Lossow and Sharpe plan to do after resting?
(a) Cross the river with their men.
(b) Send a messenger to slip through enemy lines.
(c) They are not sure.
(d) Build up fortifications where they are.

10. What is on top of the hills?
(a) A 7-foot high stone wall.
(b) Hundreds of guns.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Spiked trenches.

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

12. For what does Sharpe say the gold is going to used?
(a) Fighting the French.
(b) Enriching Fernandid's pockets.
(c) Sharpe says he is not sure.
(d) Paying the Partisans.

13. Who questions Sharpe as to his determination to do as Sharpe plans?
(a) Harper.
(b) Teresa.
(c) Lossow.
(d) Helmet.

14. What is the commander of Almeida forced to do?
(a) Surrender to the French.
(b) Turn the gold over to the French.
(c) Blow up the fortress.
(d) Retreat.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Cox say should be done with the gold?

3. Who brings a barrel of gunpowder?

4. What will happen if the French troops have to remain near the lines?

5. Where is Cox when Lossow and Sharpe find him?

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