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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 does Angel do obsessively with his weapon?
(a) Clean it.
(b) Sleep with it.
(c) Threaten people with it.
(d) Play with it.

2. Why is Angel worried about attacking the convent?
(a) It is all women.
(b) It is a holy place.
(c) There are no soldiers there.
(d) His sister had been at a convent.

3. What does Angel so in reaction to his family's deaths?
(a) Doesn't talk.
(b) Kill all Spaniards.
(c) Cry at night.
(d) Aid the British whenver possible.

4. How does Sharpe threaten the Mother Superior?
(a) That his soldiers will overrun the convent.
(b) That he will disrupt the entire convent.
(c) That he will shoot her.
(d) That he will burn them out.

5. What do the witnesses against Sharpe say they used to identify him?
(a) His sword and his walk.
(b) His large, straight sword.
(c) His height.
(d) His boot prints.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hacha think about the death of the Marques?

2. Where is Sharpe placed in Chapter 6 after he is arrested?

3. What kind of weapon does Angel carry?

4. Why does Wellington have a special connection with Sharpe?

5. What does Angel want to happen to the French?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Father Hacha think to accomplish with his actions?

2. What is Sharpe doing against the French in Chapter One?

3. How do Sharpe and Angel get past the ambush with La Marquesa?

4. Who is La Marquesa and what is her nationality?

5. What does the Mother Superior at the convent ask Sharpe and what does he tell her?

6. Why is el Matarife at an inn near the Convent of the Heavens and what does he do about Wellington's request?

7. Why is Angel helping Sharpe and what kind of weapon does he carry?

8. Why is Angel worried about Sharpe's plan in Chapter Eleven and what does Sharpe tell him?

9. How does Sharpe feel about tents, why does he feel that way and what does he and Patrick think they might be able to do about them?

10. What sentence does Sharpe receive at the end of his trial and how do the Spanish feel about it?

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