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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 is the name of the group of soldiers who accompany Pailleterie?
(a) Hussers.
(b) Raiders.
(c) Hessians.
(d) Kurkas.

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

3. Why does Pailleterie shelter his men in the fort?
(a) To keep the fort from being retaken.
(b) Because of the heavy gunfire coming from the farmhouse.
(c) To keep the British in the fort from escaping.
(d) To shelter his losses.

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

5. What does Sharpe find when he sneaks to a wall of the fort?
(a) A place where the wall has weakened.
(b) A hole under the wall.
(c) A crack.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Teresa go to Salamanca?

2. What does Pailleterie order his men and the prisoners to do?

3. What is the most dangerous time for soldiers on alert?

4. What is part of the inferno raging in the fort that Sharpe could have used?

5. What does MacKeon suggest to Sharpe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pailleterie order when it becomes clear that the fire is out of control?

2. What does Sharpe do with MacKeon's suggestion?

3. How will makeshift caltrops help Sharpe?

4. Why is Sharpe uncertain about how to keep the bridge?

5. What does Sharpe do after sabotaging the fort?

6. What do Teresa's men do that helps the enemy?

7. Why is Sharpe upset as he sees the French approaching?

8. What is Pailleterie's reaction when seeing San Miguel?

9. Describe the battle for the bridge and explain why Sharpe retreats.

10. Describe how the tide changes for Sharpe and his men after the wine bottles have been broken on the bridge.

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