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

2. How is a barricade created to help the British?
(a) They no longer need a barricade.
(b) The wagon is finally retrieved from the river.
(c) The pile of dead horses.
(d) The gate timbers.

3. What do Perkins, Cooper and Harris bring to Sharpe?
(a) A message from Wellington.
(b) A message from Teresa.
(c) One of the captured French soldiers.
(d) Bundles in blankets.

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

5. What does Pailleterie order his men to do as rifle fire commences?
(a) Nothing; he has panicked.
(b) Sheath their sabers and load their muskets.
(c) Retreat.
(d) Draw their sabers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the wagon that had originally blockaded the bridge?

2. Who does Sharpe take as prisoner?

3. Where does Sharpe sneak?

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

5. What is a four-pointed star of metal spikes that disables horses?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sharpe order Harper, Cooper and Perkins to do?

2. Where is Teresa thinking of going, and what does Sharpe suggest about her trip?

3. What does Sharpe admit to Teresa about his jumpiness?

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

5. In what way are both Sharpe and Pailleterie furious at the other group?

6. What strategy does Herault choose to fight Sharpe and his men?

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

8. How does Sharpe attempt to sabotage the fort?

9. What does Pailleterie do while waiting for the French reinforcements?

10. What does Herault observe when he arrives at San Miguel?

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