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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is General Jean Herault?
(a) The commander of Fort Piqueues.
(b) The commander of the forces Soult sends north.
(c) The commander of the Navy at Brest waiting for orders to shell the shore.
(d) The commander of the French forces dug in near Casa Lomalinda.

2. Where does Teresa want to ride?
(a) To Paris.
(b) To Avila.
(c) To Madrid.
(d) To Brest.

3. How many muskets does a priest discover at the fort?
(a) Almost 5,000.
(b) Almost 1,000.
(c) About 15,000.
(d) About 500.

4. Who is Arthur Wellesley?
(a) Patrick Harper's good buddy.
(b) The mayor of the town near the fort.
(c) The commander who is disgraced when he fails to capture the fort several months ago.
(d) The commander responsible for capturing the fort.

5. What is Herault assigned to capture?
(a) The fort at Santos Carmo.
(b) The fort at Brazilios.
(c) The bridge at Santos Carmo.
(d) The bridge at San Miguel de Tormes.

6. Why will the British soldiers' work in the Elysian fields be unmolested?
(a) The British has a strong artillery presence.
(b) There is a truce to gather their dead on each side.
(c) The French have been captured.
(d) The French have left.

7. Where does Ducos want to force the British?
(a) To the Pyrenees.
(b) Into the Atlantic.
(c) To the Portuguese border.
(d) To Holland.

8. Where does Herault march as night falls?
(a) Into Avila.
(b) Across the hills.
(c) Back towards Paris.
(d) Back to rejoin Soult.

9. What does Ducos plan to recommend to Napoleon?
(a) Herault.
(b) No one.
(c) Segoveria.
(d) Marmont.

10. What does Sharpe believe the French want the British to think?
(a) That the French are going to Avila.
(b) That the French are coming to San Miguel.
(c) That the French are not even in Spain.
(d) That the French are coming to Santos Cristophos.

11. What does Price say about Teresa?
(a) She is 100 percent loyal to Sharpe.
(b) She is a hot-blooded Spanish lady and Hicky may lose something valuable.
(c) Nothing.
(d) She is worth staring at.

12. What does Harper insist about his men?
(a) They are in sore need of some leave time.
(b) They know better than to get drunk.
(c) They think Sharpe can do no wrong.
(d) They are the best sharpshooters in the British army.

13. Who goes in search of the French?
(a) Some of the local militia.
(b) Major Tubbs and some of his Battalion.
(c) No one, since the French are quite far from the fort.
(d) Lieutenant Price and some of Sharpe's company.

14. Who has accompanied Sharpe to the fort?
(a) His wife.
(b) His light company.
(c) His nephew who wants to join the Army.
(d) His mistress.

15. What does Harper tell Sharpe about Tubbs?
(a) That Tubbs is for sale to the highest bidder.
(b) That Tubbs is swindling the Spanish peasants.
(c) That Tubbs will sell good muskets on the black market.
(d) That Tubbs is being too cautious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe think is almost impossible?

2. What enrages Teresa?

3. What does Sharpe keep in his room for medicinal purposes?

4. Of what does Tubbs take possession?

5. Why does Sharpe have his men marching on recon?

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