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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 ask El Castrador?
(a) If he plans to move his base of operations.
(b) If he wants to go to look for Loup with Sharpe.
(c) If El Castrador's wife is still alive.
(d) If he was ever a normal person.

2. What does Sharpe, when following Kiely, suggest to Kiely the day after the attack?
(a) That Kiely is unable to function in a real battle.
(b) That Kiely is controlled by his fiance.
(c) That Kiely was very courageous.
(d) That the two of them fight it out.

3. What does Sharpe tell the men about dead deserters?
(a) Loup is doing that to them.
(b) The British will execute them.
(c) The Spanish will not tolerate it.
(d) The Spanish will go after their families also.

4. Why is Father Sarsfield impressed with Sharpe?
(a) Sharpe can pick locks.
(b) Sharpe has captured a French eagle.
(c) Sharpe is known as a famous swordsman.
(d) Sharpe came up through the ranks.

5. Who talks to Sharpe about a morale problem?
(a) Morris.
(b) Runciman.
(c) Olivier.
(d) Harper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Donju suggest about the British and the men of the Real Compañía Irlandesa?

2. What does Kiely say is the reason men desert?

3. Who commanded the gatehouse not be opened during the attack?

4. How much help is Sergeant Harper to Sharpe?

5. What do the French do to get to Sharpe's troops?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sharpe see when they arrive at the village where Loup is supposed to be and what does Sharpe do there?

2. What is Sharpe ordered to do with the Real and why?

3. What is in the letter from the Spanish king to General Wellington that upsets him?

4. What does Kiely tell Sharpe about the French and about his men?

5. What do Sharpe and his men find in the village when they get there?

6. What does Sharpe ask Runciman to do and why has he asked him instead of the British command?

7. What happens to the Portuguese battalion in Loup's attack?

8. What is happening with the Real Compañía Irlandesa that worries Sharpe?

9. What does Sharpe see from the hill he is on, and what does he decide to do about it? What changes his decision?

10. What does Sharpe suggest Donaju do about the problem with the troops?

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