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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Things are unfair.
(d) That he would make a lousy officer.

2. Why does Sharpe think the French are unlikely to surrender?
(a) Because he knows Vivar's brother is in the palace.
(b) Because the local bandits have a bad reputation for torture.
(c) Because he knows there are a lot of French in the palace.
(d) Because of the treatment of the first prisoners.

3. Who wants to give the banner to the French?
(a) The British.
(b) The Catholic Church.
(c) Vivar's brother.
(d) No one.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe tell Vivar?

2. Who does Sharpe see outside the city?

3. What does Sharpe try to do to Vivar?

4. What kind of precautions do the troops take?

5. What is made for the volunteers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Louisa tell Sharpe when they meet in the palace and what does Sharpe figure out from what she says?

2. What happens when Sharpe enters the palace?

3. What does Sharpe ask Vivar about the riflemen and what is Vivar's response? How does Sharpe answer him?

4. What do Harper and Sharpe discuss and what does Harper tell Sharpe?

5. What does Vivar want the riflemen to do and what does Sharpe do?

6. What happens when the troops arrive at a stream?

7. Why does Sharpe burst into the chapel?

8. What does Sharpe tell Vivar about capturing Santiago de Compostela and what does Vivar say about Sharpe's opinion?

9. What is Harper's idea about the Spanish volunteers?

10. What does the French colonel tell Sharpe and what is Sharpe's response?

(see the answer keys)

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