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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 La Marquesa do when French gunfire begins?
(a) Breaks down and gets hysterical.
(b) Continues her afternoon nap.
(c) Runs.
(d) Takes a seat in the spectator stands.

2. What does La Marquesa do when the British overrun her position?
(a)
(b) Find Sharpe.
(c) Try to escape in her wagon.
(d) Run with Vierigny.

3. In whose honor do the men take the village?
(a) Wellington.
(b) Sharpe.
(c) Leroy.
(d) Harper.

4. What does Sharpe see a cavalryman do outside his window?
(a) Go to sleep.
(b) Throw a lit cigar onto some fuses.
(c) Shoot an intruder.
(d) Clean his rifle.

5. In what direction does Saumier take Helene?
(a) East.
(b) North.
(c) West.
(d) South.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Ducos happy as he flees?

2. What village does the Fifth Division invade?

3. What is wrong with Captain Saumier?

4. What appalls General Verigny?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does La Marquesa want Sharpe to take her?

2. Who comes to eat with Sharpe and what do they give him?

3. In what shape is Sharpe at the beginning of Chapter Sixteen and what does he think about?

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

5. What happens when Sharpe arrives at the Fifth Division?

6. What does Helene tell Sharpe about the plot against Sharpe and how does he feel about it?

7. What happens after Sharpe enters Burgos?

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

9. What do Sharpe and Harper discover about Helene and what do they do?

10. What do the British do when they arrive at Vitoria and how do they feel about what they are facing?

(see the answer keys)

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