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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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 lancers have been cut off from their lances to resupply.
(d) The horses are in a panic.

5. What is part of the inferno raging in the fort that Sharpe could have used?
(a) The reserve muskets.
(b) Large artillery shells.
(c) Timbers.
(d) Nothing.

6. What do Teresa's men do that gives their presence away to Pailleterie?
(a) Roast rabbits over a fire.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Shoot a few rifles in the air when they get drunk.
(d) Get in a fight and make noise.

7. Why does Teresa go to Salamanca?
(a) To find her child.
(b) To find the rest of the rebels.
(c) To move her sick father.
(d) To request reinforcements.

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

9. 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 acts more like a noble than many nobles.
(d) He is the finest there is.

10. What else does the French commander decide to try to do to Sharpe's men?
(a) Send his lancers in to finish Sharpe's men off.
(b) Confuse them.
(c) Separate them into small groups.
(d) Take some captive to interrogate.

11. Who does Sharpe first talk to at the fort?
(a) Jones.
(b) Tubbs.
(c) Perkins.
(d) Harper.

12. Where is the wagon that had originally blockaded the bridge?
(a) Burned to ashes.
(b) In the river.
(c) Sharpe does not know.
(d) Sitting on the other bank.

13. How does Sharpe light the oil?
(a) Fires his pistol into it.
(b) His intention is to make the French slide off the bridge, not to set fire to it.
(c) Uses his flint.
(d) Harris brings him a lighted taper from a fire in the village.

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

15. What does Teresa wave at Sharpe?
(a) The letter requesting reinforcements.
(b) Her bandana.
(c) A flag.
(d) Her hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Pailleterie and Tubbs discuss?

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

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

4. What does the French commander decide to try to do to Sharpe's men?

5. Why would she go there?

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