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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Sharpe tell Williams to do if he does not want to obey Sharpe?
(a) Duel with him.
(b) Dig himself a grave.
(c) Resign as sergeant.
(d) Quit the army.

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

4. What do the British and Spanish troops discover when they enter a village?
(a) All the men in the village have been killed.
(b) All the villagers have been slaughtered.
(c) The men in the village have been taken prisoner by the French.
(d) The villagers have fled and left the village empty.

5. What does Parker ask Sharpe to do?
(a) Negotiate the Parkers' release from the farmhouse.
(b) To allow his wife to leave.
(c) To lend him a rifle.
(d) To keep his niece safe.

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

7. What does Sharpe learn about the road to Lisbon?
(a) The road is clear.
(b) The road is full of Spanish refugees.
(c) The road has been destroyed.
(d) There is more than one road going there.

8. Who, of the men chasing Vivar, knows the contents of the strongbox and where Vivar is going with it?
(a) Captain Murray.
(b) Colonel Pierre de l'Eclin
(c) Richard Sharpe.
(d) The man in the black coat and white boots.

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

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

11. What does Vivar say when Sharpe tells Vivar he plans to go south?
(a) The British are to the east.
(b) Lisbon is to the north.
(c) There are no open roads to the south.
(d) He will go with him.

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

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

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

15. What does Harper suggest they do with the Parker's carriage?
(a) Tip it over to block the road.
(b) Burn it.
(c) Load it with gunpowder and blow it up when the French are by it.
(d) Send it barreling into the French cavalry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the French plan to get close to the farmhouse?

2. From whom is Major Blas Vivar hiding a strongbox?

3. What does Williams tell Sharpe is the background of many of the riflemen?

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

5. What does Vivar say the Spanish people need?

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