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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 does Harper think about Sharpe's order?
(a) Sharpe has the shakes from his bullet wound.
(b) Sharpe is being unreasonable.
(c) Sharpe is the one who needs sleep.
(d) Sharpe is never wrong, so Harper takes him seriously.

2. Who has accompanied Sharpe to the fort?
(a) His mistress.
(b) His light company.
(c) His nephew who wants to join the Army.
(d) His wife.

3. Why will the British soldiers' work in the Elysian fields be unmolested?
(a) There is a truce to gather their dead on each side.
(b) The French have left.
(c) The French have been captured.
(d) The British has a strong artillery presence.

4. What does Herault now command?
(a) The South Army's heavy artillery.
(b) The South Army's infantry.
(c) The North Army's horsemen.
(d) The South Army's horsemen.

5. Where does Teresa want to ride?
(a) To Paris.
(b) To Brest.
(c) To Avila.
(d) To Madrid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Major Ducos' position?

2. Who is Captain Michel Pailleterie?

3. Who is Mr. MacKeon?

4. What does Harper tell Sharpe about Tubbs?

5. What is the main obstacle of Soult's forces that are traveling North?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe General Jean Herault.

2. What is Herault doing with Ducos?

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

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

5. How does Herault gain command of the South Army's horsemen?

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

7. Who is Major Tubbs supervising and what is his mission?

8. What is Major Tubbs' response to hearing the French may come to San Miguel and what does Sharpe say to Tubbs?

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

10. What does Herault do after sacrificing 300 French infantrymen?

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