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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Loup tell Juanita to do when they reach Fuentes de Onoro?
(a) To go near Massena so she will be protected.
(b) To stay with him.
(c) To sneak around the side and kill Sharpe.
(d) To stay with the horses.

2. How does Donaju feel about going to Cadiz?
(a) Happy.
(b) Curious.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Angry.

3. What does Wellington tell Sharpe as Sharpe is leaving?
(a) The prisoners were war criminals.
(b) He is still on administrative leave.
(c) They don't shoot prisoners so the French won't either.
(d) He has to get the ammunition to the left flank.

4. Where do Sharpe and Loup meet to fight?
(a) In the middle of the village.
(b) In the middle of the stream.
(c) On the slopes overlooking the village.
(d) Almost at the French lines.

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

6. What kind of pace do the troops in the south use to march north?
(a) A half time jogging pace.
(b) A very slow pace.
(c) A pace no army in the known world can match.
(d) They are running in a rout.

7. Concerning Father Sarsfield, what have the British been trying to do?
(a) Kill him.
(b) Find him.
(c) Find his brother.
(d) Recruit him as a double agent.

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

9. Where is the item Harper picked up at after the battle?
(a) He left it in a French soldier.
(b) He lost it at the surgeon's area.
(c) In a puddle of blood.
(d) It is under a rock.

10. Why is the open plain a bad place for the British to be?
(a) A fire could annihilate them.
(b) Artillery can reach them easier.
(c) It opens them up to cavalry attacks.
(d) There is no good hiding places.

11. What would happen if Wellington lost his entire force?
(a) England would have to leave Spain.
(b) He would be executed.
(c) It would cut the English army in half.
(d) He would be stripped of command.

12. Who wants to become Generalissimo of Spain?
(a) Wellington.
(b) El Castrador.
(c) Valverde.
(d) Count de la Phillipe.

13. What does Massena tell Loup to do when Massena's bluecoats begin to clear the skyline?
(a) To hit the British on its northern flank.
(b) To clear the village of the dead.
(c) To push the troops the last few feet up the sloop.
(d) To take the middle of Fuentes de Onoro.

14. What does Wellington abandon when his forces are united?
(a) The west side of the river.
(b) The forest in the east.
(c) The roads for withdrawal.
(d) Fuentes de Onoro.

15. About what does Sharpe lecture Donaju?
(a) The men of the Real Compañía Irlandesa not being ready to fight.
(b) How important ammunition is in battle.
(c) The immorality of suicide.
(d) A soldier's duty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe do when the young lieutenant is shot?

2. Why did people in the era of Sharpe's Battle pay money to insane asylums?

3. Why do some of the soldiers prowl through the bodies after the battle?

4. Why does the person in question #130 blame San Isidoro on Sharpe?

5. What did Hogan know about Juanita?

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