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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 the only Spanish people fighting the war?
(a) The merchant class.
(b) Peasants.
(c) The nobles.
(d) No one.

2. What does Harper say delays him?
(a) A lone Frenchman.
(b) Spaining his ankle in a hole.
(c) Slipping in the manure.
(d) Investigating a scream.

3. Who does El Catolico trust?
(a) Kearsey.
(b) Sharpe.
(c) Cox.
(d) Tereasa.

4. Against what are the French well fortified?
(a) A sneak attack.
(b) Lancers.
(c) Heavy artillery.
(d) Riflemen.

5. What does Sharpe's apology imply?
(a) That Sharpe realizes his promotion is at stake.
(b) That he was commanded to apologize.
(c) That Ayres is at fault also.
(d) That Sharpe realizes he was completely at fault.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Kearsey halt the group outside Casatejada?

2. What does Sharpe think about El Catolico?

3. How is Sharpe's morale?

4. Who is Joaquim Jovellanos?

5. What do Sharpe and the Provosts pretend with each other?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the encounter between Sharpe and Ayres.

7. Describe the scene when Sharpe apologizes to Ayres.

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

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

10. Describe Sharpe's discussion with Wellington.

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