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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vivar see when Sharpe removes his shirt?

2. How many men does Sharpe see outside the city?

3. What do Sharpe and Louisa say to each other when he sees her after the battle?

4. What does Sharpe command his riflemen to do?

5. Why does Sharpe run back into the town?

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

3. What kind of idea does Sharpe have and what is Vivar's response?

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

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

6. Why does Vivar come to Sharpe in the tavern, how does Sharpe act?

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

8. What does Sharpe hear as the riflemen are fighting and who appears? Why are the Cazadores fighting so hard?

9. What does Sharpe do with the sentry?

10. What does Vivar tell Sharpe and what does he do?

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