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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Sharpe and the Provosts pretend with each other?
(a) They are both on the winning side.
(b) Civility.
(c) They know each other.
(d) They are both working for the same side.

2. Who do Harper and Sharpe capture?
(a) A German artillery man.
(b) A Spanish interpreter.
(c) A Polish lancer.
(d) A Polish General.

3. What is Sharpe's quest?
(a) To find his wife he left him.
(b) To discover who is leaking intelligence to the French.
(c) To discover who is killing soliders randomly in their sleep.
(d) To find gold to help finance the war.

4. Why is Sharpe pleased?
(a) Because Harper has an excellent plan to rescue Kearsey.
(b) Because El Catolico asks for a meeting.
(c) Because Teresa is in the village.
(d) Because Kearsey is not chained in an obscure location.

5. Who is Joaquim Jovellanos?
(a) Teresa's fiance.
(b) The second in command of the Partisans.
(c) El Catolico.
(d) Moreno's bodyguard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who guides Sharpe and Harper through the terrain?

2. What is Harper's rank?

3. Who arrives for Sharpe to question?

4. Who are Teresa and Ramon?

5. What does Sharpe order his company to do after firing once?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Sharpe's men angry and sad as they enter the village?

2. How do Sharpe and Teresa begin a romance?

3. Who does not agree with most of the others, but why is that not obvious?

4. What do they discover when they open the Moreno family vault and what is Sharpe's reaction?

5. Describe Sharpe's discussion with Wellington.

6. Who is Cox and what does Sharpe learn from him?

7. Who are discussing Sharpe's state of mind?

8. Why is the mood somber in Chapter one among the forces allied against Napoleon?

9. What does Sharpe think of Major Kearsey and why does Sharpe have to deal with the man?

10. How does Sharpe threaten El Catolico's men?

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