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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 the legend say will happen if the banner is ever captured?
(a) Spain will be occupied by a foreign army for 100 years.
(b) Matamoros will never return.
(c) Spain will be destroyed.
(d) Zorro will never rise again.

2. What does Sharpe ask Harper to do with Spanish civilians?
(a) Find out where they want to go.
(b) Train them.
(c) Hide them.
(d) Guard them.

3. How does the battle between the riflemen and the first group of French work out?
(a) The riflemen run.
(b) The riflemen win.
(c) The French run.
(d) Sharpe takes all the French prisoner.

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

5. What does Sharpe tell Harper to have the riflemen do after Vivar enters the town?
(a) Head to the palace.
(b) Follow the volunteers.
(c) Keep the riflemen out of the town.
(d) Burn the city gate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of precautions do the troops take?

2. What do Sharpe and Harper discuss?

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

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

5. What does Sharpe tell the riflemen to do that is not part of the plan?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Sharpe feel about Louisa being gone and what does Vivar tell Sharpe about her absence?

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

7. What does Sharpe do with the sentry?

8. How do the townspeople react to the British and Spanish attacking?

9. What is the legend about the gonfalon?

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

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