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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Sharpe sprinkle oil and add kindling?
(a) In the fort commander's office.
(b) In the fort's stables.
(c) In the storeroom of the fort.
(d) On the bridge.

2. What part of the horse is disabled?
(a) The forefoot.
(b) The fetlock.
(c) The ankle.
(d) The soft part of the horse's hoof.

3. What is Teresa doing as Price's men fire their rifles?
(a) Getting her men lined up for a charge.
(b) Bandaging Sharpe's ribs.
(c) On her way to her horse.
(d) Helping rouse the men who are not on watch.

4. What does Sharpe realize about the wall?
(a) It can serve as a means of blocking the bridge.
(b) It is still quite strong and stable.
(c) It will crush his men if it collapses.
(d) It is on fire.

5. Why does Pailleterie shelter his men in the fort?
(a) To keep the fort from being retaken.
(b) Because of the heavy gunfire coming from the farmhouse.
(c) To shelter his losses.
(d) To keep the British in the fort from escaping.

6. How is a barricade created to help the British?
(a) They no longer need a barricade.
(b) The pile of dead horses.
(c) The gate timbers.
(d) The wagon is finally retrieved from the river.

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

8. What does the person in question 163 suggest to Sharpe.
(a) Using fire to destroy the bridge.
(b) Using the wine.
(c) Flanking the Dragoons on the west.
(d) Moving the villagers to hold the reserve line.

9. What men does Sharpe have left to fight?
(a) About half a company.
(b) About half a squad.
(c) Most of his men are still alive and fighting.
(d) Two ranks of infantry and some riflemen.

10. When should Herault arrive?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) 6 hours.
(c) 2 days.
(d) 5 days.

11. About what is Sharpe upset?
(a) Losing the fort.
(b) Harper's men being overwhelmed.
(c) Teresa riding off alone.
(d) Pailleterie hanging one of Sharpe's men who was captured.

12. Why does Coignet raise an alarm?
(a) He does not raise an alarm.
(b) He sees Sharpe's men trying to light the outer gates of the fort.
(c) He hears Major Tubbs talking to Sharpe.
(d) He sees smoke coming through the floorboards.

13. What does Sharpe order the redcoats to do?
(a) Flank the dragoons.
(b) Flank the lancers.
(c) Retreat to the back side of the fort.
(d) Fire at the charging lancers.

14. What does Pailleterie see going towards San Miguel?
(a) Two French battalions.
(b) A hidden path.
(c) Two British battalions.
(d) A small stream.

15. What does Sharpe order Harper and the rest of his men to do?
(a) Carry the boxes of dynamite out to the fort's gates.
(b) Start filling their rucksacks with the poison to deploy.
(c) Retreat towards the direction from which reinforcements are expected.
(d) Throw the rest of the unopened wine bottles on the bridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where may Teresa go if the French do not arrive?

2. Who does Teresa bring from Wellington's forces?

3. How did the French fool Sharpe?

4. Why doesn't Ensign Hickey negotiate with the French?

5. What does Sharpe perceive when he looks down Salamanca Road?

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