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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. Who recognizes Sharpe when he enters the palace?
(a) Colonel de l'Eclin.
(b) Captain Bouises.
(c) Major Phillipe de Courseli.
(d) The Count of Mouromorto.

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

3. What does Vivar want the riflemen to do which is a change in plans?
(a) To take the gatehouse and set up snipers.
(b) To charge past a guardhouse and not engage the enemy.
(c) To go directly to the palace.
(d) To shoot from the hills.

4. How long do the troops march?
(a) Until just after noon.
(b) Until sunset.
(c) Until the late afternoon.
(d) All through the night.

5. What does the guide want to do when the troops reach a stream?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Have the men stop to drink.
(c) Bless it with holy water.
(d) Have the men bathe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe say is the cost of his aid?

2. What does Vivar do with Sharpe's wine?

3. Why does Sharpe think the French are unlikely to surrender?

4. What does Harper say is good for Sharpe?

5. What does Sharpe command his riflemen to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the French colonel suggest to Sharpe?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why is Sharpe going into the palace?

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