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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. About what does Coignet ask Pailleterie?
(a) If he should build a stockade for the prisoners.
(b) If he should break the wine bottles.
(c) If he should strip the prisoners of their valuables.
(d) If he should send word back to Herault.

4. Who does the French commander summon?
(a) Ducos.
(b) The Dragoons.
(c) Paillertie.
(d) His artillery.

5. Where does Sharpe sneak?
(a) To the fort commander's office.
(b) To the farmhouse where Harper is holed up.
(c) To try to get his horse out of the fort stable.
(d) A small place between the storeroom ceiling and the floor above.

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

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

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

9. What gives Pailleterie an advantage in charging across the bridge?
(a) The English have their guns pointed the opposite direction.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The English are dug in in trenches.
(d) The rising sun blinds the English.

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

11. How did the French fool Sharpe?
(a) They did not fool Sharpe.
(b) By coming up from the rear of the fort.
(c) By splitting their forces into three directions.
(d) By sneaking down the riverbank.

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

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

14. What is being stored in the back of the chapel?
(a) The poison.
(b) A few cases of dynamite.
(c) The muskets Tubbs was checking out.
(d) The wine Harper did not destroy.

15. Who is Hagman?
(a) The one who fired too soon.
(b) The senior rifleman.
(c) The first Hessian across the bridge.
(d) The man who takes a bullet for Sharpe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Pailleterie and Tubbs discuss?

2. What is happening to the French troops that come as reinforcements?

3. What has Pailleterie given his men before?

4. Who does Sharpe stab on the bridge?

5. Of what nationality are the lancers of the French army?

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