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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the British and Spanish decide to do when they arrive at a village in Chapter 6?
(a) Stay on the far side in a meadow.
(b) Buy supplies and move on.
(c) Continue through it.
(d) Stay the night.

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

4. What happens to Major Dunnet during the battle with the French?
(a) He is taken prisoner.
(b) He is wounded.
(c) He is killed.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

7. What does the French commander tell Sharpe?
(a) He has ten minutes to surrender.
(b) He will hang all of Sharpe's men as thieves.
(c) He will burn the farmhouse down.
(d) He will let them go if Sharpe gives him the strongbox.

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

9. What does Sharpe advise George to do?
(a) Join with the Spanish army.
(b) Go to Lisbon.
(c) Go to the coast.
(d) Stay with Vivar.

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) By hiding behind the carriage.
(d) With barricades to protect them.

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

12. When was the fortress to which the soldiers come built?
(a) About a thousand years ago.
(b) Vivar's grandfather built it.
(c) About five hundred years.
(d) It was built when Vivar was a child.

13. How does Vivar refer to his brother?
(a) As a traitor.
(b) As his half brother.
(c) As a murderer who killed their father.
(d) As a duke.

14. What does Murray believe when he offers Sharpe advice?
(a) Sharpe is a poor officer.
(b) He can give Sharpe aid in adjusting to being an officer.
(c) Murray believes he is about to die.
(d) They can outwit the French.

15. What does a lieutenant in a small village do in Chapter 1 right before the British are getting ready to withdraw?
(a) Gets drunk.
(b) Takes rifle ammunition out of a crate.
(c) Steals food in his field pack.
(d) Burns some crates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the British and Spanish troops do while traveling west?

2. What does Sharpe do when they are running for the farmhouse?

3. Why is Sharpe worried about Louisa?

4. What does Williams tell Sharpe is part of the reason the riflemen have fought so hard?

5. What do the lieutenant's clothes look like?

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