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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 do Sharpe and Harper discuss?
(a) Whether they should help Vivar.
(b) Whether some of the riflemen should be sent to Lisbon immediately.
(c) That Harper wants to remain a sergeant permanently.
(d) Whether Harper will become a sergeant.

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

3. What does Louisa say she intends to do after the battle?
(a) Go with Sharpe.
(b) Go to France with the French colonel.
(c) Stay with Vivar.
(d) Return to England.

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

5. How many French soldiers does Harper kill inside the chapel?
(a) Two.
(b) None.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the legend say will happen if the banner is ever captured?

2. What does Sharpe tell Harper to have the riflemen do after Vivar enters the town?

3. What does Louisa think she might be able to do to help with the planned attack?

4. What does Sharpe tell the French colonel?

5. Why does Sharpe run back into the town?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do Sharpe and Louisa talk about and what is Louisa's idea? How does Sharpe feel about her idea?

3. Where do the riflemen flee from the French pouring out of the palace and what do they see there?

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

5. What is the legend about the gonfalon?

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

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

8. Why does Sharpe know the French who have appeared are not the real attack?

9. What news do local bandits bring and what is Vivar's response to their news?

10. What does Sharpe do with the caltrops and how do they work?

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