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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. Of what does Kearsey deny knowledge?
(a) The whereabouts of the French detachment.
(b) The whereabouts of the Polish lancers.
(c) Where Moreno is.
(d) Hardy.

2. How is the fighting between the Spanish peasants and the French?
(a) They are not fighting.
(b) Vicious.
(c) The peasants don't fight.
(d) The French just mow the peasants down.

3. With what is Ramon impressed?
(a) The way Sharpe fights.
(b) Sharpe's Riflemen company.
(c) El Catolico's sword work.
(d) The way Sharpe fought off half a dozen men to save Teresa.

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

5. What is Knowles' rank?
(a) Captain.
(b) Major.
(c) Sargeant.
(d) Lieutenant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is dead in the village?

2. How is Kearsey killed?

3. How does Kearsey fall off his horse?

4. Who is Batten?

5. How do the men feel as they are being escorted across the terrain by the Partisans?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Harper proud and how much of his discovery is there?

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

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

6. Who are discussing Sharpe's state of mind?

7. What happens when Sharpe begins to dig in the grave?

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

9. Why is the mood somber in Chapter one among the forces allied against Napoleon?

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

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