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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Coignet ask Pailleterie?
(a) If he should strip the prisoners of their valuables.
(b) If he should send word back to Herault.
(c) If he should build a stockade for the prisoners.
(d) If he should break the wine bottles.

2. What makes a recovery of the situation at San Miguel possible for Sharpe?
(a) If the fire in the fort spreads rapidly and the French cannot extinguish it.
(b) If Teresa returns in time with reinforcements.
(c) If Tubbs does his part inside the fort.
(d) If Pailleterie panics.

3. Where may Teresa go if the French do not arrive?
(a) Madrid.
(b) Paris.
(c) Avila.
(d) Salamanca.

4. What orders does the French commander give to the men he summons?
(a) To go get the fire out at the fort.
(b) To silence the riflemen.
(c) To go in and capture Sharpe.
(d) To ford the river and flank the riflemen.

5. For what does Sharpe know he will be blamed?
(a) The capture of Major Tubbs.
(b) The disruption to the British supply lines.
(c) The loss of so many men.
(d) The loss of the muskets.

6. Of what is MacKeon reminded?
(a) A seige near Sangre.
(b) A battle he read about in his military studies.
(c) A fort he and Sharpe took near Brest.
(d) Gawilghur.

7. What is a four-pointed star of metal spikes that disables horses?
(a) Caltrops.
(b) Twitches.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Spurs.

8. What is the name of the group of soldiers who accompany Pailleterie?
(a) Kurkas.
(b) Hessians.
(c) Hussers.
(d) Raiders.

9. What confounds Sharpe as he and his men take the bridge?
(a) The village attacking Sharpe and his men.
(b) Herault's men marching towards them.
(c) Teresa running towards him from the French lines.
(d) The village up in arms against the French.

10. Where does Sharpe sneak?
(a) To the fort commander's office.
(b) To the farmhouse where Harper is holed up.
(c) A small place between the storeroom ceiling and the floor above.
(d) To try to get his horse out of the fort stable.

11. How does the French commander plan to kill all the British?
(a) He wants to make them retreat; not kill them all.
(b) With his heavy cavalry.
(c) With his artillery.
(d) By charging the bridge with overwhelming forces.

12. Why does Pailleterie allow Tubbs to keep his sword?
(a) Tubbs has been secretly working with the French.
(b) Tubbs seems harmless.
(c) Tubbs is related to Pailleterie.
(d) Tubbs gives his parole.

13. What looks like a makeshift caltrops?
(a) Nothing; they have no caltrops or anything that resembles these.
(b) The pieces of melted metal from the muskets.
(c) The fence baling wire struck out on the bridge.
(d) The broken wine bottles.

14. For what is Sharpe grateful about Harper's earlier actions?
(a) Harper's thinking of poisoning the enemy.
(b) Harper's disobedience in not staying at the farmhouse.
(c) Harper's hobby of braiding twine into rope.
(d) Harper's disobedience in not smashing all the wine bottles.

15. Why is Coignet's order useless?
(a) The men have no further to retreat.
(b) The fire has spread too far.
(c) The men have run out the west gate and are headed towards Avila.
(d) The gates are ablaze.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Sharpe stab on the bridge?

2. Why do the dragoons cease firing upon the British?

3. What does the person in question 163 suggest to Sharpe.

4. What men does Sharpe have left to fight?

5. How is a barricade created to help the British?

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