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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 do the French forces do in Chapter 24?
(a) Unabashedly flee.
(b) Make a last ditch stand.
(c) Out flank the English and come in behind them.
(d) Wipe out the English cavalry.

2. Where do they say Sharpe can travel is he is incapable of riding a horse?
(a) In the food wagon.
(b) They tell him he has to ride a horse.
(c) In the artillery wagon.
(d) In La Marquesa's carriage.

3. Why does Sharpe remain a guarded prisoner?
(a) He has tried to escape several times and broke his parole.
(b) He has been identified as Richard Sharpe and they fear him.
(c) He will not offer his parole.
(d) He wants to spy on the General longer.

4. What does General Verigny ask of Sharpe?
(a) His parole.
(b) His advice about La Marquesa.
(c) His signature on the prisoners exchange document.
(d) His sword.

5. In what is Marshal Jourdan confident?
(a) His dragoons.
(b) His sharpshooters.
(c) His field artillery.
(d) A French victory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in Burgos knows Sharpe's true identity?

2. What does Sharpe see a cavalryman do outside his window?

3. What does Helene claim to Sharpe about the letter she wrote?

4. What does Sharpe decide to do about the cavalryman's actions??

5. What do Sharpe and Harper do at Helene's wagon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Sharpe think of when leading the troops and what does he do with the troops?

2. What does La Marquesa do after it is obvious the British have won and what happens to her?

3. How do the French feel before the battle of Vitoria?

4. Of what does Sharpe remind Helene and what does she tell him to say to the French?

5. What does Hogan learn about the explosion, what does he think and what is the Spanish family doing with him?

6. Where is Sharpe taken in Burgos and what is the place like?

7. What does the Fifth Division do in the battle of Vitoria and what happens to Leroy?

8. What does Sharpe do when el Matarife shows up at the inn? How does that end?

9. What does La Marquesa do at the start of the battle of Vitoria and who protects her and why was he chosen?

10. What does La Marquesa tell Sharpe in Chapter Sixteen about his situation and what does she and Montbrun want Sharpe to do?

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