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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. Where does Sharpe sprinkle oil and add kindling?
(a) On the bridge.
(b) In the storeroom of the fort.
(c) In the fort's stables.
(d) In the fort commander's office.

2. How is Lieutenant Price in early dawn?
(a) Groggy.
(b) Alert.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Unconscious from his wound infection.

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

4. What does Sharpe see is lost?
(a) The fort.
(b) The bridge.
(c) The town of San Miguel.
(d) The farmhouse where Harper is hiding.

5. What else does the French commander decide to try to do to Sharpe's men?
(a) Confuse them.
(b) Take some captive to interrogate.
(c) Send his lancers in to finish Sharpe's men off.
(d) Separate them into small groups.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the French commander plan to kill all the British?

2. Who does Sharpe stab on the bridge?

3. What part of the horse is disabled?

4. Why does Sharpe order his men to retreat?

5. What does Tubbs say about Sharpe being an officer?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Pailleterie threaten his men and what is there response?

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

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

5. What does Sharpe do after sabotaging the fort?

6. Who raises the alarm about the fire and what do they do?

7. What is the aftermath of the battle at the bridge of San Miguel?

8. How will makeshift caltrops help Sharpe?

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

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

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