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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what is Sharpe grateful about Harper's earlier actions?
(a) Harper's hobby of braiding twine into rope.
(b) Harper's thinking of poisoning the enemy.
(c) Harper's disobedience in not staying at the farmhouse.
(d) Harper's disobedience in not smashing all the wine bottles.

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

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

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

5. Why do the dragoons cease firing upon the British?
(a) To allow the lancers to charge.
(b) They see British reinforcements arriving.
(c) Their ammo is wet.
(d) They are out of ammo.

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

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

8. What confounds Sharpe as he and his men take the bridge?
(a) The village attacking Sharpe and his men.
(b) Herault's men marching towards them.
(c) Teresa running towards him from the French lines.
(d) The village up in arms against the French.

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

10. Who does Sharpe stab on the bridge?
(a) Pailleterie.
(b) Tubbs.
(c) Herault.
(d) Coignet.

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

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

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

14. 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.

15. What does Pailleterie think is his last chance when he orders his men to charge?
(a) To acquit himself with honor.
(b) To hold the bridge.
(c) He knows he can dig in and wait for reinforcements, so he is not worried.
(d) To finally get rid of the British from the area.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pailleterie see going towards San Miguel?

2. Who does Sharpe push into the water?

3. Why are the lancers unable to get by the horses?

4. What grabs Sharpe's attention as he and Teresa are talking?

5. Who makes a suggestion to Sharpe to help him in his strategic plans?

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