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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe do when they are running for the farmhouse?
(a) Hides in the carriage.
(b) Climbs a tree and fire on the French.
(c) Stays behind to provide cover fire.
(d) Leaps on one of the carriage horses and charge the French.

2. By what title does Major Warren Dunnet address the lieutenant in Chapter 1?
(a) Logistics Commander.
(b) Company Commander.
(c) Officer on Duty.
(d) Quartermaster.

3. What does Vivar say the Spanish people need?
(a) A miracle.
(b) Less political in-fighting.
(c) More weapons.
(d) More time.

4. What does Harper do the night of the battle?
(a) Gives Sharpe a formal apology.
(b) Rallies the men against going south.
(c) Challenges Sharpe to a duel.
(d) Gets drunk.

5. What does Sharpe find out the night after the battle with the French?
(a) The Spanish army is only thrity miles away.
(b) The French have taken Lisbon.
(c) The French have taken Santiago de Compostela.
(d) The French have left Madrid.

6. What does Sharpe think about advancing directly into the French troops?
(a) It will let Vivar get away.
(b) He does not consider it.
(c) It is risky.
(d) It will ensure victory.

7. How is the person Sharpe meets dressed?
(a) Sloppily.
(b) Immaculately.
(c) As a Spanish gentleman.
(d) He is dressed in a tattered and worn uniform.

8. How does Sharpe get a telescope?
(a) His brother gives it to him for his birthday.
(b) His father leaves it to him.
(c) He receives it for bravery.
(d) He buys it when he is on leave.

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

10. How do the French plan to get close to the farmhouse?
(a) By pulling the supply wagons close to the house.
(b) By waving a white flag then throwing it down.
(c) With barricades to protect them.
(d) By hiding behind the carriage.

11. What does Sharpe do when Mrs. Parker refuses to leave the carriage?
(a) Cuts the horses loose from the carriage.
(b) Pulls her out of it.
(c) Tells her husband to push her out.
(d) Pushes the carriage over with her in it.

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

13. Why is Sharpe worried about Louisa?
(a) Because she doesn't speak Spanish.
(b) The guerrillas may mistake her for being French.
(c) Because he worries she doesn't love him.
(d) Because of the upcoming fight.

14. What does Williams suggest to Sharpe?
(a) They go east away from the French.
(b) They surrender to the French.
(c) They rescue the prisoners.
(d) They scatter in the woods.

15. Where do the riflemen go when they leave the farmhouse?
(a) North on the road.
(b) The go behind the barn.
(c) They go behind the French troops.
(d) They go into the woods.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Sharpe meet with in the French troops?

3. Who intervenes when Sharpe and Vivar get into a fight?

4. In what direction is Davila supposed to go when he leaves Vivar?

5. What does Vivar encourage Sharpe to do about Harper?

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