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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe tell Donaju to do?
(a) Have some of the greencoats go help the ones being ambushed.
(b) Get an ammunition wagon ready to go.
(c) Pull the Real Compañía Irlandesa back from the heights.
(d) Ready the Real Compañía Irlandesa for battle.

2. What does Sharpe see when looking at the French?
(a) Juanita de Elia.
(b) Pierre Ducos.
(c) Massena and Loup.
(d) The grey uniforms of the Loup brigade.

3. What does Sharpe do when the young lieutenant is shot?
(a) Goes and gets the colonel.
(b) Withdraws the lieutenant's men.
(c) Has Harper take him to the surgeon's area.
(d) Regroup the men.

4. Why does the person in question #130 blame San Isidoro on Sharpe?
(a) For killing two of Loup's men in front of Loup.
(b) For hiding in the gatehouse.
(c) For not running the battle well.
(d) For not having more men on guard duty.

5. Who are the biggest and most fierce fighters of the French?
(a) The grenadiers.
(b) The Wolf Brigade.
(c) The Rangers.
(d) The cosairs.

6. What does Sharpe with Father Sarsfield?
(a) Restrain him.
(b) Talk to him.
(c) Shoot him.
(d) Run a bayonet through his leg.

7. Where does Sharpe go after leaving Wellington?
(a) Behind the Highlanders.
(b) To the command center in the village.
(c) To the slope where the French are pushing.
(d) To the village towards the Wolf Brigade.

8. Why is Massena frustrated with the British troops northward march?
(a) He wants to personally kill Wellington.
(b) His cavalry cannot attack them.
(c) They have taken out much of the French artillery.
(d) They block his route to Fuentes de Onoro.

9. What does Sharpe find in Juanita's panniers?
(a) Sharpe's telescope.
(b) Nothing.
(c) False newspapers.
(d) Loup's battle plans.

10. Why would Wellington not march on Badajoz or Cadiz?
(a) If his supplies do not arrive from England.
(b) If the Spanish do not join him.
(c) If Almeida is in the hands of the French.
(d) If he is not head of the allied forces.

11. What does Wellington see when overlooking Fuentes de Onoro?
(a) The British army setting up there.
(b) He cannot see Fuentes de Onoro from where he sits.
(c) Fuentes de Onoro is a smoking shamble.
(d) Spanish residents of Fuentes de Onoro fleeing.

12. Why does Sharpe gasp as he is watching the battle with Wellington?
(a) He sees the grey wolf banner.
(b) He sees some of his greencoats being ambushed.
(c) He sees the young lieutenant overrun.
(d) He sees Juanita.

13. Why did people in the era of Sharpe's Battle pay money to insane asylums?
(a) To watch the patients.
(b) To be able to hire the less insane people for dirty work.
(c) As charity giving.
(d) To have better care for a relative.

14. What is the only choice left for the British to retreat?
(a) There are no choices for retreat.
(b) Going through a heavy growth forest.
(c) A narrow bridge.
(d) Taking Almeida.

15. What part of his army did Wellington send south?
(a) The seventh division.
(b) The 307th. greencoat battalion.
(c) The Warwicks and the Highlanders.
(d) The fifth division.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kills Juanita?

2. What does Sharpe say to Hogan about Sarsfield?

3. To what staff does Tarrant belong?

4. What excuse do Sharpe and Harper use to go to the village?

5. About what does Sharpe lecture Donaju?

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