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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. Who are Provosts?
(a) They are in the vanguard and responsible for reconnaissance.
(b) They are responsible for keeping the troops from pillaging the towns.
(c) They are the support personnel.
(d) They are French spies.
2. What does Sharpe worry about on his men's approach to the village?
(a) That the men will meet with traps in the high grass.
(b) That there may be French soldiers hiding in the fields or alleyways.
(c) That Kearsey will be killed when the rebels realize a rescue attempt is happening.
(d) That their weapons will clang.
3. Who is dead in the village?
(a) No one.
(b) Every man, woman, child and animal except one man.
(c) All the mercenary soldiers but none of the villagers.
(d) A few peasants, but most of the villagers are alive.
4. To what does Teresa admit?
(a) That El Catolico killed Moreno.
(b) That there is much more gold in the village.
(c) That the French have more gold.
(d) That El Catolico killed Hardy.
5. Who holds the fort at Almeida?
(a) The Spanish.
(b) The Germans.
(c) The French.
(d) The Portuguese.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Sharpe's quest?
2. What does Sharpe's men have orders to do to pursuers?
3. Why wouldn't the Partisans buried a man on Sunday?
4. How does Teresa distract the Polish lancers?
5. Who does El Catolico trust?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to Kearsey as he is returning to Sharpe's company?
2. Where do the men of Sharpe's company go?
3. What happens when Sharpe begins to dig in the grave?
4. Who are discussing Sharpe's state of mind?
5. What does Sharpe learn as he takes stock of his company after the fighting and how does Kearsey react to his rescue?
6. Describe the encounter between Sharpe and Ayres.
7. How do Harper and Sharpe capture an enemy lancer, and how does Teresa help them escape from the rest of the lancers?
8. What does Sharpe decide to do based upon what Harper tells him?
9. Describe the English attack on the French in the village.
10. What does Sharpe observe during the fighting between the Spanish and French and for whom does he look?
This section contains 1,108 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |
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