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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) 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.

2. What does Sharpe order Hagman to do when the French begin firing again?
(a) To blow up the carriage.
(b) To re-negotiate with the French.
(c) To escape and find Vivar.
(d) To start shooting the French horses.

3. What does Sharpe command Harper to do?
(a) To sneak out of the farmhouse and go find the army.
(b) To be sergeant.
(c) To go to the attic and set up his big gun.
(d) To escort the Parkers to their carriage.

4. What does Sharpe tell the Parkers to do when he sights French cavalry?
(a) Go off the road to the right.
(b) Turn around.
(c) Stop and hide.
(d) Continue down the road.

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

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

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

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

9. What does Sharpe order Williams to do at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Move the wounded.
(b) Form ranks.
(c) Take a squad to scout.
(d) Send men out for firewood.

10. What does Sharpe do to a cavalry horse that reaches him?
(a) Kicks it in the ribs.
(b) Strikes it in the mouth with his sword.
(c) Pulls the rider off and mount it.
(d) Cuts its front leg in half.

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

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

13. From whom is Major Blas Vivar hiding a strongbox?
(a) His sister.
(b) The British.
(c) The Spanish.
(d) The French.

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

15. What do the riflemen do as the British retreat from the French?
(a) Guard the rear.
(b) Conduct guerrilla warfare.
(c) Take the point.
(d) Guard the flanks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Sharpe talk to the French?

3. What does Sharpe learn about the road to Lisbon?

4. What does Sharpe do when Mrs. Parker refuses to leave the carriage?

5. How does Father Alzaga feel towards Sharpe?

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