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

2. Who kills the French Colonel?
(a) Harper.
(b) A beautiful woman who is tied up.
(c) Sharpe.
(d) Kearsey.

3. Who is Lieutenant Colonel William Lawford?
(a) Sharpe's commander.
(b) The commander of the Provosts.
(c) The commander of the 9th heavy artillery.
(d) Sharpe's brother-in-law.

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

5. What does Sharpe risk in going back to look for the gold?
(a) That El Catolico will persuade Kearsey to deceive him.
(b) The wrath of the French and Spanish.
(c) That Teresa will be harmed by the Partisans.
(d) That there are still Partisans in the village.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wins a sword fighting duel with Sharpe?

2. Who reminds the men of their own mortality?

3. Where does Sharpe his men to go?

4. How is the fighting between the Spanish peasants and the French?

5. Who are the only Spanish people fighting the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the encounter between Sharpe and Ayres.

2. How do Sharpe and Teresa begin a romance?

3. What does Sharpe find when he follows the woman he later learns is Teresa?

4. What does Sharpe observe during the fighting between the Spanish and French and for whom does he look?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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