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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the French do when they see Sharpe and his men?
(a) Charge the British.
(b) Send a small advance party.
(c) Wave a parley flag.
(d) Form into a cavalry square.

2. What does Williams tell Sharpe that Vivar has told Williams about the strongbox?
(a) It contains gold.
(b) It contains precious jewels.
(c) It is the King's Great Seal.
(d) It has valuable intelligence information.

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

4. What does Major Dunnet tell Captain Murray about the lieutenant?
(a) He is incompetent.
(b) The lieutenant is a great tactician.
(c) He is not a real officer.
(d) The lieutenant's men won't listen to him.

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

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

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

8. What will Vivar's troops do in the morning?
(a) Go to Lisbon.
(b) Stay at the village.
(c) Go to Madrid.
(d) Continue on to Satiago de Compostela.

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

10. What does the French negotiator think Sharpe is trying to do?
(a) Sabotage his capture of Vivar.
(b) Draw him away from Vivar's position.
(c) Stop the French advance.
(d) Help Vivar escape.

11. Who wakes Sharpe in the night in Chapter 6?
(a) Vivar.
(b) A monk.
(c) Harper.
(d) A soldier.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vivar say when Sharpe tells Vivar he plans to go south?

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

3. Why does Vivar bury the French dead?

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

5. Who is the young British woman at the village?

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