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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. Why will the riflemen attack with their rifles empty?
(a) To keep from shooting each other.
(b) To keep their powder dry.
(c) To prevent accidental discharge.
(d) To keep their musket balls dry.

2. Why are Sharpe and Harper looking to the south and west of town?
(a) To find any riflemen who deserted.
(b) To figure out where to go next.
(c) To predict de l'Eclin's approach.
(d) To show the volunteers where to go.

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

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

5. Where does Sharpe burst into?
(a) The townhall.
(b) The palace.
(c) The tavern where Vivar is.
(d) The cathedral.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is wrong when the riflemen arrive?

2. How does Sharpe get into the palace?

3. Why does Sharpe think no woman would want him?

4. What does Sharpe tell Vivar?

5. What do Sharpe and Harper discuss?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Vivar tell Sharpe to do in the chapel and what does Sharpe find?

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

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

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

5. What does the French colonel suggest to Sharpe?

6. What do Sharpe and Harper decide about the French coming to the town?

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

8. How long do the troops march and what do the riflemen do to keep their movement a secret?

9. Why is Sharpe going into the palace?

10. What is the legend about the gonfalon?

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