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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many men does Sharpe see outside the city?
(a) No more than two hundred.
(b) About five hundred.
(c) About three hundred.
(d) About a thousand.

2. What does Harper tell Sharpe about the Spanish volunteers?
(a) They will never be able to fight like soldiers.
(b) They are ready to go.
(c) They won't be ready for another week.
(d) There are not enough of them.

3. What does Vivar say blacksmiths will begin to make?
(a) Horseshoes.
(b) Bayonets.
(c) New swords.
(d) Caltrops.

4. What does Sharpe tell the French colonel?
(a) He will take all the French as prisoners.
(b) He will post snipers over the palace walls.
(c) He will blow up the palace.
(d) His riflemen will leave within the hour.

5. What does Sharpe notice around the outside of the city?
(a) Vivar's cazadores.
(b) A line of cavalry.
(c) A number of the Spanish volunteers.
(d) The British have surrounded the city.

6. What does Sharpe ask Vivar about the riflemen?
(a) If the banner will harm them.
(b) If they can now head to Lisbon.
(c) If they will be paid for their aid.
(d) How they fit into Vivar's plans.

7. What does Sharpe command his riflemen to do?
(a) Back up the cazadores.
(b) Join the British regiment.
(c) Bring the caltrops and come with him.
(d) Fire on the French cavalry.

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

9. 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) Two musket ball scars.
(d) Sharpe's flogging scars.

10. Who is with Sharpe at the table in a tavern?
(a) Harper.
(b) Several of his men.
(c) Captain Huckelby.
(d) A prostitute.

11. What does Sharpe say is the cost of his aid?
(a) Enough horses to get the riflemen to the ocean.
(b) Food and supplies for his men.
(c) That Vivar convinces Harper to become a sergeant.
(d) That Harper be used to protect Louisa.

12. What news do local bandits bring to Vivar?
(a) The king of Spain has been killed.
(b) Napoleon is coming to Spain.
(c) Napoleon has ordered the capture of Lisbon by February.
(d) Lisbon has been captured by the French.

13. What does Harper say to Sharpe immediately when he answers Sharpe's summons?
(a) He will not be Louisa's bodyguard.
(b) He is Irish and that's that.
(c) That he would make a lousy officer.
(d) Things are unfair.

14. From what do the riflemen have to defend the French prisoners?
(a) The cazadores.
(b) The townspeople.
(c) The Spanish volunteers.
(d) The local bandits.

15. What does Sharpe hear right before the cazadores enter the town?
(a) An explosion.
(b) A trumpet.
(c) A drum.
(d) French artillery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vivar say he must do because of the banner?

2. What does the French colonel say about Louisa?

3. What does Vivar asks Sharpe after the first battle?

4. Who will lead the attack?

5. What officer does Sharpe see?

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