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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does Teresa want to ride?
(a) To Madrid.
(b) To Avila.
(c) To Brest.
(d) To Paris.
2. What does Sharpe say he did not see?
(a) Correct military protocal by the local militia.
(b) Any strange uniforms.
(c) Correct military procedures by Tubbs and his men.
(d) A way to defend the fort if the French return.
3. What did the sacrifice at Avila do?
(a) Open the back way to Castile.
(b) Free the rest of Teresa's rebel group to join Sharpe.
(c) Give Sharpe a clear field to regroup.
(d) Give the Duke of Wellington's forces a way to retreat.
4. Where does Ducos want to force the British?
(a) To Holland.
(b) To the Pyrenees.
(c) To the Portuguese border.
(d) Into the Atlantic.
5. Where does Sharpe send Harper and twenty riflemen?
(a) To a nearby farm.
(b) To take a message to Wellington.
(c) To protect the musket cache.
(d) To protect the bridge.
6. Where does Ducos suggest sending 300 men?
(a) Directly to Marmont.
(b) Avila.
(c) To circle around and wait on the coast.
(d) Back to Soult.
7. Why does Sharpe have his men marching on recon?
(a) To forage for food.
(b) So the dust from the marching will fool the French into thinking the British have left.
(c) So the French will think Sharpe has a much bigger force than he does.
(d) So they do not get slack in their duties.
8. Why doesn't Sharpe want to do what Major Tubbs suggests?
(a) Sharpe wants to keep Teresa where he can protect her.
(b) Sharpe does not trust Major Tubbs.
(c) Sharpe does not want to raise the alarm falsely.
(d) Sharpe does not think the French will harm the peasants and they'd be in the way inside the fort.
9. Where does Herault think the biggest danger to his men lies?
(a) Near the Vlazio River crossing.
(b) Near the forst at Brazilios.
(c) In going through the mountains.
(d) In crossing the Southern plains.
10. With whom does Major Tubbs have to work?
(a) The Duke's nephew.
(b) The Duke's son.
(c) Spanish and Scot laborers.
(d) Private Harper.
11. Who is nicknamed La Aguja?
(a) The beautiful woman riding towards the fort.
(b) Sergeant Harper.
(c) A man Sharpe's company captures near the river.
(d) One of the men found hiding in the barn.
12. Who is Lieutenant Price?
(a) A British officer turned traitor.
(b) An officer under Sharpe's command.
(c) An officer under Major Tubbs' command.
(d) A corrupt commisary officer.
13. Who goes in search of the French?
(a) Lieutenant Price and some of Sharpe's company.
(b) No one, since the French are quite far from the fort.
(c) Major Tubbs and some of his Battalion.
(d) Some of the local militia.
14. When was "Sharpe's Skirmish" first written?
(a) 2008.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1898.
15. What does Ducos plan to recommend to Napoleon?
(a) Herault.
(b) No one.
(c) Segoveria.
(d) Marmont.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Sharpe trying to accomplish at the bridge?
2. How many men does Captain Pailleterie take on his mission?
3. What is Sharpe ordered to do at the fort?
4. Who is Captain Michel Pailleterie?
5. What does Sharpe have Harper do?
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