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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 Sharpe order Harper and the rest of his men to do?
(a) Throw the rest of the unopened wine bottles on the bridge.
(b) Carry the boxes of dynamite out to the fort's gates.
(c) Retreat towards the direction from which reinforcements are expected.
(d) Start filling their rucksacks with the poison to deploy.

2. What does Sharpe order his men to do when he runs back to the village?
(a) Retreat to the river.
(b) Start setting the fort's timbers on fire.
(c) Prepare to storm the fort.
(d) Retreat to the farmhouse.

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

4. Who is Hagman?
(a) The first Hessian across the bridge.
(b) The senior rifleman.
(c) The one who fired too soon.
(d) The man who takes a bullet for Sharpe.

5. Where does Perkins go after Sharpe talks with him?
(a) To talk to Tubbs.
(b) To Salamanca.
(c) To talk to Pailleterie.
(d) The village.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sharpe sneak?

2. Who does Sharpe push into the water?

3. What does Sharpe admit to Teresa?

4. When should Herault arrive?

5. For what does Sharpe know he will be blamed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who do Pailleterie and Tubbs discuss and what do they say?

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

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

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

6. Why does Pailleterie allow Tubbs to keep his sword?

7. Why does Sharpe realize he does not need to negotiate a truce with the French forces?

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

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

10. Of what does MacKeon remind Sharpe?

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