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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sharpe get into the palace?
(a) Under a flag of truce.
(b) As a prisoner of the French.
(c) Through the kitchen.
(d) Jumping the garden wall.

2. What does Sharpe first find inside the strongbox?
(a) A leather bag.
(b) A book.
(c) A pair of knives.
(d) A leather box.

3. Where does Vivar go when he leaves the palace?
(a) To his men.
(b) To his home.
(c) The main town hall.
(d) The chapel.

4. What is wrong when the riflemen arrive?
(a) They are in the wrong location.
(b) There is no cover for them to hide behind.
(c) They are spotted by the French.
(d) They are at the wrong town.

5. What does the French colonel say about Louisa?
(a) He does not know who she is.
(b) She is in the palace.
(c) She has been wounded.
(d) She left with other women and children.

6. What does Sharpe tell Vivar?
(a) That there are British soldiers outside the city.
(b) That de l'Eclin is outside the city.
(c) That de l'Eclin is in the palace.
(d) That he must leave the town immediately.

7. What tactic does Sharpe want to use to attack Santiago de Compostela?
(a) Burning the village.
(b) Surprise.
(c) Sneaking into the palace and setting mines.
(d) Caltrops and a battering ram.

8. What officer does Sharpe see?
(a) Colonel de l'Eclin.
(b) He doesn't recognize any officer.
(c) Major Hogan.
(d) The French colonel he met in the palace.

9. What does the guide want to do when the troops reach a stream?
(a) Have the men stop to drink.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Bless it with holy water.
(d) Have the men bathe.

10. What kind of precautions do the troops take?
(a) Drinking a lot of water in the hot, dry weather.
(b) Keeping their powder dry in the rain.
(c) Keeping their food from spoiling.
(d) Precautions so they do not make unnecessary noise.

11. How do the volunteers do when Vivar watches a demonstration?
(a) They can shoot well with the muskets.
(b) They fail.
(c) They are successful with charging but fail in bayonet practice.
(d) They are highly successful.

12. What does the colonel wonder as Sharpe leaves?
(a) If Louisa is in the town.
(b) If Vivar will come to the palace.
(c) If Colonel d 'Eclin will get back in time.
(d) If he has fooled Sharpe.

13. What is the banner called that Vivar carries?
(a) Throngut.
(b) Gonfalon.
(c) A tri-late.
(d) Stongheart.

14. What does the legend say will happen if the banner is ever captured?
(a) Zorro will never rise again.
(b) Spain will be occupied by a foreign army for 100 years.
(c) Matamoros will never return.
(d) Spain will be destroyed.

15. What does Vivar see when Sharpe removes his shirt?
(a) The large tattoo on Sharpe's back.
(b) Nothing, he's not seen Sharpe with his shirt off.
(c) Sharpe's flogging scars.
(d) Two musket ball scars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the riflemen go after they are gathered together?

2. What does Sharpe ask Harper to do with Spanish civilians?

3. Who will lead the attack?

4. From what do the riflemen have to defend the French prisoners?

5. Why does Sharpe think the French are unlikely to surrender?

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