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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe say he did not see?
(a) Any strange uniforms.
(b) Correct military protocal by the local militia.
(c) Correct military procedures by Tubbs and his men.
(d) A way to defend the fort if the French return.

2. Who does Sharp yell at for staring at his wife?
(a) Hickey.
(b) Ducos.
(c) Harper.
(d) Tubbs.

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

4. What does Sharpe have disposed of, found in the fort?
(a) Spoiled wheat.
(b) Bad artillery rounds.
(c) The wine.
(d) A few gallons of poison.

5. How does Sharpe know La Aguja?
(a) She is his wife.
(b) He does not know La Aguja.
(c) There is a drawing of the man hanging on the fort commander's wall.
(d) He was once in prison with the man.

6. What is sacrificed at Avila?
(a) 3,000 British pike men.
(b) 100 French heavy cavalry.
(c) 300 French infantrymen.
(d) The ability to stike back quickly.

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

8. What is Sharpe ordered to do at the fort?
(a) Interrogate the French soldiers taken prisoner.
(b) Destroy anything that would be of use to the French if they return.
(c) Guard Major Tubbs and Tubbs' men.
(d) Dig entrenchments.

9. Why does Sharpe order this disposal?
(a) Because he is afraid the men will get ill with moldy wheat.
(b) Because he does not believe in poisoning wells as a tactic of war.
(c) Because the war has not yet been won.
(d) He is afraid to use the rounds in case they explode inside the cannon barrels.

10. Where does Ducos suggest sending 300 men?
(a) Directly to Marmont.
(b) Back to Soult.
(c) To circle around and wait on the coast.
(d) Avila.

11. Of what does Tubbs take possession?
(a) The French prisoners.
(b) The wine.
(c) The muskets.
(d) The French camp followers.

12. With whom does Major Tubbs have to work?
(a) The Duke's nephew.
(b) The Duke's son.
(c) Private Harper.
(d) Spanish and Scot laborers.

13. What does Teresa suggest Sharpe have Hickey do?
(a) Write a request for reinforcements.
(b) Send out scouts towards Avila.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Retreat with the civilians since he is wounded.

14. What will the plan do if it succeeds?
(a) Perpetuate the least amount of casualties.
(b) Deal a detestation blow to Wellington's forces.
(c) Save Madrid.
(d) Get the troops to Marmont faster.

15. What does Sharpe keep in his room for medicinal purposes?
(a) Three bottles of scotch.
(b) Several bottles of laudanum.
(c) Three bottles of whiskey.
(d) 24 bottles of wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Teresa say she fights?

2. What does the narrator say Major Pierre Ducos is not?

3. What does Tubbs not believe?

4. Where does Ducos want to force the British?

5. What does Harper tell Sharpe about Tubbs?

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