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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do they stop Sharpe's wound from bleeding?
(a) They use spider webs.
(b) It stops on its own.
(c) They cauterize it.
(d) They wrap it tightly.

2. Who commands the Portuguese?
(a) Lieutenant Johnson.
(b) Captain Garrison.
(c) Lieutenant Tom Garrard.
(d) Captain Slocum.

3. What seems almost impossible that was accomplished?
(a) An explosion that great.
(b) Building the hill fortifications.
(c) That no one was killed in the explosion in real life.
(d) That the French were turned back.

4. Why is Kearsey furious with Sharpe?
(a) For not taking all the gold.
(b) He is not angry.
(c) For taking the gold.
(d) For contacting the Spanish consul.

5. Why can't the French go around the Lines of Torres Vedras?
(a) The Germans guard the west entrace to Portugal.
(b) They are cut off by the Alps.
(c) They don't have the time it would take.
(d) The English are waiting in the peninsula.

6. Why does Sharpe also give Teresa his own rifle?
(a) He does not give her his rifle; he gives her his knife.
(b) Hers was lost in the explosion.
(c) The one she was using belongs to Roman.
(d) The one she was using belongs to Harper.

7. What does Sharpe decide to do when he spots the French.
(a) To surrender.
(b) To go right into the skirmish line.
(c) To sneak in and kill their leaders.
(d) To head in another direction.

8. What does Cox agree for Sharpe to do?
(a) Sneak back to Moreno's village.
(b) Stay there until help arrives.
(c) Leave with the gold.
(d) Send a telegram to Wellington.

9. About how many men die in the explosion?
(a) 11.
(b) 22.
(c) 500.
(d) 100.

10. How does Sharpe kill El Catolico?
(a) By tricking him.
(b) With a fire iron.
(c) By garroting him.
(d) With a rifle.

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

12. What did the French not expect?
(a) The order for them to withdraw.
(b) The explosion.
(c) Almeida to surrender.
(d) Wellington to arrive in time.

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

14. What makes Sharpe believe they have no chance?
(a) He sees that the main French army has joined in the skirmish.
(b) He spies about 200 French lancers.
(c) He sees the heavy calvalry moving in.
(d) He spies about 200 Polish lancers.

15. Where is Cox when Lossow and Sharpe find him?
(a) In his barracks.
(b) In the jakes.
(c) In the telegraph office.
(d) In the cathedral.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harper admire about the French?

2. Why is Sharpe's mission so important?

3. What is being built for which they needed the gold so badly?

4. What are they debating in the opening to chapter 23?

5. Who is nearby?

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