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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. Where does Kearsey say the gold is hidden?
(a) Under the hermitage in the Moreno family vault.
(b) In a vault in the graveyard.
(c) In a secret passageway in the fortress.
(d) It is not in the village.

2. What sort of demonstration do Sharpe's men give?
(a) Their shooting abilities.
(b) Their ability to torture.
(c) None.
(d) Their sword fighting ability.

3. Why does Kearsey upbraid Sharpe?
(a) For rescuing Kearsey.
(b) He doesn't upbraid Sharpe, he thanks him.
(c) For running from the lancers.
(d) For shooting at the pikemen.

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

5. What does Sharpe admit to Wellington?
(a) Threatening Ayres with a rifle.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Ordering his men to help with the harvest.
(d) Telling Harper he could have leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who saved Lawford's life seven years earlier?

2. Who descends upon Sharpe's company?

3. What is Sharpe's quest?

4. How does Kearsey fall off his horse?

5. What does Colonel Williams express?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do Harper and Sharpe capture an enemy lancer, and how does Teresa help them escape from the rest of the lancers?

4. Describe the English attack on the French in the village.

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

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

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

8. Describe the encounter between Sharpe and Ayres.

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

10. Describe Sharpe and Moreno's conversation.

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