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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 questions Sharpe as to his determination to do as Sharpe plans?
(a) Helmet.
(b) Teresa.
(c) Lossow.
(d) Harper.

2. What do the Partisans do?
(a) Pull a sneak attack.
(b) Shoot El Catolico.
(c) Leave.
(d) Shoot Cox.

3. What does Sharpe tell Hogan about the explosion?
(a) Almost nothing.
(b) Just that it happened and the list of deaths.
(c) A detailed account.
(d) A falsified account.

4. What does Sharpe threaten to cut off?
(a) Part of Teresa's ear.
(b) El Catolico's pony tail.
(c) Kearsey's ear.
(d) Kearsey's finger.

5. What would they have to hold out for in order to not be overrun?
(a) Wellington's army.
(b) The rains.
(c) The snows.
(d) A truce.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Sharpe shot?

2. What is the purpose of the historical notes?

3. What happens as Sharpe's message is being sent?

4. What day did this explosion occur?

5. What is Sharpe hating to think about doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the problems the British seem to be having?

2. How does Sharpe discover that the French are nearby when Sharpe's company approaches the Coa River?

3. What do Sharpe and several others discuss?

4. Why will the Lines of Torres Vedras stop the French?

5. Describe the fight between Sharpe and El Catolico.

6. What are the losses and who lives after the explosion?

7. What does Sharpe say to Hogan and what is Hogan's response?

8. Describe Teresa and Sharpe's conversation while they are in bed?

9. What happens to Teresa?

10. What is Sharpe's plan for blowing up Almeida?

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