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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the most dangerous time for soldiers on alert?
(a) Dawn when it is still hazy.
(b) Late afternoon when the sun is from the west.
(c) All times are dangerous.
(d) Noon when they can't see shadows.

3. 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) Throw the rest of the unopened wine bottles on the bridge.
(c) Retreat towards the direction from which reinforcements are expected.
(d) Start filling their rucksacks with the poison to deploy.

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

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

6. What does Sharpe suggest to Teresa?
(a) To stay in Madrid for a couple weeks.
(b) To bring their daughter to San Miguel for a week.
(c) To stay in Avila for a couple weeks.
(d) To stay in Salamanca for a couple weeks.

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

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

9. Why would she go there?
(a) To visit her ill grandmother.
(b) To recruit more men to the rebel cause.
(c) To visit her infant daughter.
(d) To visit her ill brother.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Sharpe first talk to at the fort?

2. Where does Sharpe sneak?

3. Where does Sharpe sprinkle oil and add kindling?

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

5. Who is the high-ranking prisoner Sharpe captures?

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