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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 Coignet order?
(a) Retreat.
(b) To open the gates.
(c) Attack.
(d) Water.

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

3. Of what is MacKeon reminded?
(a) A battle he read about in his military studies.
(b) A seige near Sangre.
(c) A fort he and Sharpe took near Brest.
(d) Gawilghur.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who else is filled with rage as Sharpe is?

3. About what does Coignet ask Pailleterie?

4. When should Herault arrive?

5. Why doesn't Ensign Hickey negotiate with the French?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Of what does MacKeon remind Sharpe?

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

4. How is Sharpe feeling at the opening of this section?

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

6. What sets Teresa off running for her horse and why is she going for the horse?

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

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

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

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

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