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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the French commander decide to try to do to Sharpe's men?
(a) Kill them with his pikemen.
(b) Thin them out.
(c) Lead them into an ambush.
(d) Push them into the river.

4. What does Pailleterie know about the road to the South?
(a) It is covered by the French Hussars.
(b) It is open.
(c) It is protected by Teresa's men.
(d) It will be a costly battle to open it.

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

6. What does Coignet order?
(a) Retreat.
(b) Water.
(c) Attack.
(d) To open the gates.

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

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

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

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

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

12. How is Sharpe feeling at the coming of the dawn?
(a) Angry.
(b) Vindicated.
(c) Weary and foolish.
(d) Optimistic.

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

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

15. Who does Teresa bring from Wellington's forces?
(a) The light cavalry of the 101st brigade.
(b) Captain Lossow of the King's German Legion and his forces.
(c) The heavy artillery of the 57th brigade.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Pailleterie given his men before?

2. What is a four-pointed star of metal spikes that disables horses?

3. How is Lieutenant Price in early dawn?

4. What does Pailleterie order his men to do as rifle fire commences?

5. Why does Pailleterie shelter his men in the fort?

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