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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. How is Kearsey killed?
(a) He is shot by a French sharpshooter.
(b) He is surrounded by a regiment of Polish lancers and stabbed by several of them
(c) He is not killed by rather captured.
(d) He breaks his neck when he falls off his horse.

2. Who do they use to find their way through the dark?
(a) Hagman.
(b) A dog.
(c) Harper.
(d) Kearsey.

3. What is Harper's rank?
(a) He is a civilian.
(b) Lieutenant.
(c) Captain.
(d) Sargeant.

4. To whom is Sharpe ordered to apologize?
(a) Lawford.
(b) Ayres.
(c) Knowles.
(d) Wellington.

5. Where does Sharpe his men to go?
(a) Casatejada.
(b) Stay in the woods.
(c) Villanea.
(d) With him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe risk in going back to look for the gold?

2. What is Knowles' rank?

3. How do the British attempt to stay on good terms with the locals?

4. Who reminds the men of their own mortality?

5. Where do Teresa and El Catolico say Hardy is?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where do the men of Sharpe's company go?

3. Who is holding the gold and what does Kearsey know about the man and the situation?

4. Describe Sharpe's discussion with Wellington.

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

6. What sort of guide is Kearsey and why do the men find him annoying?

7. Why does Kearsey leave Sharpe's company and what does Sharpe decide to do?

8. What does Sharpe decide to do based upon what Harper tells him?

9. What happens to Kearsey as he is returning to Sharpe's company?

10. What does Sharpe ask Joaquim Jovellanos and what is Joaquim's reply?

(see the answer keys)

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