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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harper refuse to do?
(a) Stay behind as rear guard.
(b) Prepare to depart.
(c) Carry the ammunition packs.
(d) Become an officer.

2. What does Sharpe do when Harper thinks Sharpe has agreed with the men?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Slaps Harper.
(c) Attacks Harper.
(d) Has Harper put in chains.

3. Why has Louisa joined Sharpe's group?
(a) She is looking for a husband.
(b) To get away from her uncle and aunt.
(c) To have an adventure.
(d) She is tired of reading the Bible all the time.

4. What does Sharpe do when Captain Murray is hit with a musket round?
(a) Put him on a horse.
(b) Pick him up.
(c) Call for a medic.
(d) Kill the French soldier who shot the captain.

5. Who arrives at the farmhouse with extra cavalry?
(a) Major Roberto de la Couscella.
(b) Captain Blaize.
(c) Colonel de le'Tousi.
(d) Vivar.

6. What does Williams tell Sharpe is the background of many of the riflemen?
(a) They have been drafted against their wishes.
(b) They are good sturdy farmers.
(c) They are thugs and criminals.
(d) They are mostly from the cities.

7. What does Sharpe order Williams to do at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Form ranks.
(b) Take a squad to scout.
(c) Move the wounded.
(d) Send men out for firewood.

8. What do the British and Spanish troops do while traveling west?
(a) Form into a cohesive army.
(b) Have minor brawls between the British and the Spanish troops.
(c) Fight the French.
(d) Stay off the main roads.

9. What does Vivar encourage Sharpe to do about Harper?
(a) Demote him.
(b) Release him.
(c) Flog him.
(d) Arrest him.

10. What does Vivar say when Sharpe asks for explanations of what they are doing?
(a) Vivar says he can't tell Sharpe anything until the next week.
(b) He tells him he doesn't have the need to know.
(c) He tells him about the strongbox.
(d) He says he will talk later.

11. Who intervenes when Sharpe and Vivar get into a fight?
(a) Parker.
(b) A priest.
(c) Williams.
(d) A monk.

12. What does the French negotiator tell Sharpe about the French army?
(a) It is in Madrid.
(b) He is not part of the French army.
(c) The army is in Lisbon.
(d) It will be arriving soon.

13. What does Sharpe advise Vivar not to do?
(a) Charge the hill from the right flank.
(b) Come from the left flank.
(c) Take cover in the woods.
(d) A frontal attack.

14. What keeps French reinforcements from crushing Vivar and Sharpe?
(a) The French have to cross a river.
(b) A forest fire on the south.
(c) Harper gets loose and cuts them off.
(d) Sharpe kills the French commanding officer.

15. What does Sharpe say he plans to do about the French to the French negotiator?
(a) He plans to capture all the French troops.
(b) He has no desire to fight.
(c) He plans to leave that night.
(d) He doesn't know what he plans to do.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harper suggest they do with the Parker's carriage?

2. What does the French negotiator think Sharpe is trying to do?

3. What does Sharpe order Hagman to do when the French begin firing again?

4. By what title does Major Warren Dunnet address the lieutenant in Chapter 1?

5. What does Murray believe when he offers Sharpe advice?

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