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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What motivated Teresa to becomes a soldier?
(a) The French captured her father and brothers and they are in prison.
(b) The French killed her family.
(c) The French killed her young son.
(d) Because the French will not allow Spain to be independent even if Spain fights for them.

2. Who is nicknamed La Aguja?
(a) Sergeant Harper.
(b) One of the men found hiding in the barn.
(c) A man Sharpe's company captures near the river.
(d) The beautiful woman riding towards the fort.

3. Through what town does Herault ride?
(a) Sietan.
(b) Champlain.
(c) Toledo.
(d) Masalez.

4. What is Sharpe ordered to do at the fort?
(a) Destroy anything that would be of use to the French if they return.
(b) Guard Major Tubbs and Tubbs' men.
(c) Dig entrenchments.
(d) Interrogate the French soldiers taken prisoner.

5. What would happen if the French retake Salamanca?
(a) The English would have to retreat into Germany.
(b) The French would have a staging ground to retake the southeastern edge of France.
(c) The English would have to fall back to Madrid.
(d) It will cut the Duke of Wellington's forces off from their supplies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will add a page to Soult's page of glory?

2. What does Harper admit to Sharpe?

3. What is La Aguja's real name?

4. Why is Ducos' opinion important?

5. What will the plan do if it succeeds?

Short Essay Questions

1. About what are Sharp's men objecting and why do they stop complaining?

2. Who welcomes Sharpe to San Miguel and what is he like?

3. How does Sharpe scare Tubbs about a woman riding with a group of rebels and why is it funny?

4. What does Sharpe order Lieutenant Price to do and why?

5. What does the author say about "Sharpe's Skirmish" in his introduction to the story?

6. Why is Major Ducos in Spain?

7. What does Teresa want to do and what does Sharpe suggest?

8. What does Herault suggest as a tactic for taking San Miguel?

9. What does Ducos think of Herault's plan.

10. What is Teresa's response to Hickey's question about fighting the French?

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