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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What year did the real explosion take place?
(a) 1807.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1810.
(d) 1809.

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

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

6. Who says he will help defend Almeida?
(a) El Catolico.
(b) Ramon.
(c) Moreno.
(d) Malrasia.

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

8. What day did this explosion occur?
(a) April 24.
(b) June 30.
(c) August 1.
(d) August 27.

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

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

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

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

13. Who does Sharpe think is on the roof?
(a) Kearsey.
(b) Ramon.
(c) El Catolico.
(d) Moreno.

14. Where does Cox want the gold sent?
(a) To Moreno.
(b) To Wellington.
(c) To his headquarters.
(d) To England.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the commander of Almeida forced to do?

2. Who is in Lisbon?

3. What is the purpose of the historical notes?

4. What would they have to hold out for in order to not be overrun?

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

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