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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 seems almost impossible that was accomplished?
(a) An explosion that great.
(b) That no one was killed in the explosion in real life.
(c) Building the hill fortifications.
(d) That the French were turned back.

2. What does Harper admire about the French?
(a) Their accuracy with their artillery.
(b) Their tenacity.
(c) Their politeness.
(d) Nothing.

3. What ruins can be seen today?
(a) The fortifications on the Lines of Torres Vedras.
(b) The French fortifications around Almeida.
(c) The cathedral at Almeida.
(d) Nothing is still there today.

4. Why can't the French go around the Lines of Torres Vedras?
(a) The English are waiting in the peninsula.
(b) They don't have the time it would take.
(c) The Germans guard the west entrace to Portugal.
(d) They are cut off by the Alps.

5. Where do the hill fortifications run?
(a) From the Atlantic to Tagus.
(b) Atlantic to Lisbon.
(c) Atlantic to Brussels.
(d) Tagus to Massena.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the real explosion take place?

2. What does Sharpe give Teresa?

3. What does Cox agree for Sharpe to do?

4. What does Lawford reveal?

5. Where is Sharpe shot?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Sharpe goes to the telegraph station and who is he with?

2. What does Cox say when Sharpe asks permission to leave the fortress?

3. Describe Almeida.

4. What is Teresa learning and from whom?

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

6. What does it say about the cause of the explosion and who got in a bread oven?

7. Describe the interaction between Sharpe and Garrard.

8. Why is Lossow happy?

9. Describe the scene between Cox and Sharpe about the gold and Sharpe's men.

10. Why does Sharpe think there is no hope for his company and who saves them?

(see the answer keys)

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