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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is happening to the French troops that come as reinforcements?
(a) They are being beaten by a handful of British soldiers.
(b) They are being pushed towards the conflagration in the fort.
(c) They are about to finish off the British.
(d) They are getting disorganized.

4. What does Pailleterie order his men and the prisoners to do?
(a) To hold fast.
(b) To smash down the southern wall of the fort.
(c) Gather on to the bridge.
(d) Gather in the Eastern corner of the fort.

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

6. What does Sharpe perceive when he looks down Salamanca Road?
(a) Some shadows that are not cast by trees.
(b) Several horse strays walking down the road.
(c) All is quiet.
(d) A lone dog sniffing in the bushes.

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

8. With what does Pailleterie threaten his men if they make noise?
(a) Dismissal from the military.
(b) A whipping.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Death.

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

10. Why has Sharpe made everyone else nervous?
(a) Because he is angry about the wine Harper saved.
(b) Because he is jumpy himself.
(c) No one but Sharpe is jumpy.
(d) Because they think he knows more than they do about an impending attack.

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

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

13. What do Pailleterie and Tubbs discuss?
(a) Sharpe.
(b) The likelihood of Napoleon being ultimately victorious over Europe.
(c) The likelihood of the British leaving the area.
(d) The captured French muskets.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What confounds Sharpe as he and his men take the bridge?

3. Why does Sharpe order his men to retreat?

4. What orders does the French commander give to the men he summons?

5. What does Sharpe find when he sneaks to a wall of the fort?

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