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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Louisa do when the riflemen leave the farmhouse?
(a) Run to Sharpe.
(b) Goes to the carriage.
(c) Stays in the farmhouse.
(d) She's with her uncle in the French troops.

2. Why does Sharpe talk to the French?
(a) To let them know Vivar is not with them.
(b) To offer himself for his men's lives.
(c) To arrange safe passage for the Parkers.
(d) To assess their numbers.

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

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

5. What does Vivar ask Sharpe to recount at the dinner table?
(a) How Sharpe saved Vivar.
(b) Sharpe's military experience.
(c) What Sharpe believes is in the strongbox.
(d) Sharpe's family history.

6. Who is the young British woman at the village?
(a) The wife of the village mayor.
(b) George Parker's niece.
(c) Harper's sister.
(d) A visiting noblewoman.

7. Who does Sharpe meet in the night?
(a) A British woman.
(b) A Spanish woman.
(c) Harper.
(d) Vivar's lieutenant.

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

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

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

11. What does Williams tell Sharpe is part of the reason the riflemen have fought so hard?
(a) So they do not have to march to Lisbon.
(b) So that they could loot the French dead.
(c) To help Vivar save the strongbox.
(d) So that Shapre would free Harper.

12. Who is killed when the French assault the farmhouse?
(a) Parker.
(b) Williams.
(c) Logan.
(d) Blackman.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the fortress to which the soldiers come built?

2. What does Vivar say will defeat the French in Spain?

3. What does Vivar tell Sharpe about how he deals with military regulations?

4. What does Sharpe do when Harper thinks Sharpe has agreed with the men?

5. Where do the riflemen go when they leave the farmhouse?

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