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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharp do in the place where he sneaks?
(a) Tries to kidnap Pailleterie.
(b) Quietly calls a man to come over.
(c) Tries to convince Major Tubbs to sabotage the French muskets.
(d) Tries to rescue Harper.

2. What does Pailleterie hope about San Miguel?
(a) That it will surrender without a fight.
(b) That it is unguarded.
(c) That they will be able to flank it undetected.
(d) That he can take San Miguel without any loss of life.

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

4. Why are the lancers unable to get by the horses?
(a) The horses have refused to move forward.
(b) The lancers are being beset from three sides.
(c) The horses are in a panic.
(d) The lancers have been cut off from their lances to resupply.

5. Who does the French commander summon?
(a) Ducos.
(b) The Dragoons.
(c) His artillery.
(d) Paillertie.

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

7. Why is Sharpe filled with fury?
(a) He is angry that Tubbs consorted with the enemy.
(b) He is angry that the French outmaneuvered him.
(c) He has learned that the French hold Teresa prisoner.
(d) He is angry that Pailleterie thinks him not worthy to be an officer.

8. Why does Sharpe order his men to retreat?
(a) So they can draw the French into an ambush.
(b) So he can plan.
(c) He orders them to attack, not retreat.
(d) So they do not get slaughtered.

9. What does Sharpe admit to Teresa?
(a) That he had an affair while she was gone.
(b) That he loved her from the first time he saw her.
(c) That he may have overreacted.
(d) That he still has faith in his intuition that the French are out there.

10. What does Sharpe see is lost?
(a) The farmhouse where Harper is hiding.
(b) The bridge.
(c) The fort.
(d) The town of San Miguel.

11. What grabs Sharpe's attention as he and Teresa are talking?
(a) A shout from the bridge.
(b) The sound of canons.
(c) The sound of a horse screaming.
(d) An explosion from inside the fort.

12. Why is Sharpe in a quandary?
(a) He does not know if he should give up the bridge and find a more defensible position.
(b) He is unsure whether to deploy his cavalry against the heavy French cavalry.
(c) He does not not the best way to defend against the large French force.
(d) He does not know how many French he has to fight.

13. How does Sharpe know more French are coming?
(a) The barricade has been removed.
(b) He does not think any more French are coming.
(c) Because Pailleterie is holed up in the fort.
(d) Because Sharpe can see dust rising several miles in the distance.

14. What gives Pailleterie an advantage in charging across the bridge?
(a) The English are dug in in trenches.
(b) The English have their guns pointed the opposite direction.
(c) The rising sun blinds the English.
(d) Nothing.

15. What does Tubbs say about Sharpe being an officer?
(a) He may be an officer, but he's no gentleman.
(b) He was brought up through the ranks.
(c) He is the finest there is.
(d) He acts more like a noble than many nobles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is part of the inferno raging in the fort that Sharpe could have used?

2. What does Coignet order?

3. What men does Sharpe have left to fight?

4. What does Sharpe realize about the wall?

5. When should Herault arrive?

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