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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sharpe trying to accomplish at the bridge?
(a) Barricading it.
(b) Collapsing it.
(c) Sharpe has no plans for the bridge.
(d) Leaving it open so the French will cross it into an ambush.

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

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

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

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

6. What does Sharpe suggest Teresa have her men do?
(a) Stay in San Miguel.
(b) Go to Avila.
(c) Go to rejoin the main rebel forces.
(d) Sharpe would not try to tell Teresa what to do.

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

8. What motivated Teresa to becomes a soldier?
(a) Because the French will not allow Spain to be independent even if Spain fights for them.
(b) The French killed her family.
(c) The French killed her young son.
(d) The French captured her father and brothers and they are in prison.

9. What does Major Tubbs suggest that Sharpe declines to do?
(a) Send Harper to warn Wellington.
(b) Warn Salamanca that the French are coming.
(c) Bring the Spanish peasants inside to fort for protection.
(d) Send Teresa and her men to Avila.

10. With what book was "Sharpe's Skirmish" supposed to be given away?
(a) None.
(b) "Sharpe's Rifles".
(c) "Sharpe's Fortress".
(d) "Sharpe at Waterloo".

11. Through what town does Herault ride?
(a) Champlain.
(b) Sietan.
(c) Toledo.
(d) Masalez.

12. What does Sharpe tell Hickey when it is obvious Hickey is afraid?
(a) That the French could never get through the fort's walls.
(b) That fear can be a good way to stay alive.
(c) That Sharpe has not lost a battle yet.
(d) That Ensigns are expendable.

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

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

15. Who does Tubbs see riding towards the fort?
(a) A Russian squad of artillerymen.
(b) A beautiful woman.
(c) A scout for the Dutch troops.
(d) A British Royal messenger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lieutenant Price?

2. Where does the General lead a charge that destroys a British battalion?

3. What does Ducos lack?

4. What does Sharpe say he did not see?

5. What enrages Teresa?

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