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

2. What does Hogan tell Sharpe about Sharpe's change in status?
(a) Sharpe will be attached permanently to the Real Compañía Irlandesa.
(b) Wellington is demoting Sharpe back to enlisted.
(c) Sharpe is being court-martialed.
(d) Sharpe is on administrative duties.

3. Why have the French called an unofficial truce?
(a) To collect their dead and wounded.
(b) To study the British position.
(c) To rest.
(d) To decide if they will attack again.

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

5. What does Sharpe say about Kiely's suicide?
(a) It was too bad it did it.
(b) There are better ways to kill oneself.
(c) The men are better off without Kiely.
(d) He wouldn't have done it if he'd not gotten drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Donaju complain to Sharpe?

2. What does Donaju ask Sharpe about Kiely's suicide?

3. Who wants to become Generalissimo of Spain?

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

5. What do the French dragoons do when they come through Nave de Haver the morning after the truce?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hogan set up confronting Father Sarsfield?

2. How does Sharpe, Runciman, and the Real Compañía Irlandesa get involved in the battle for Fuentes de Onoro?

3. What do the French do at the church in Nave de Haver?

4. What do Hogan and Wellington talk about as far as Almeida is concerned?

5. How does the second large battle for Fuentes de Onoro start and which British troops are involved?

6. What do Hogan and Wellington decide about Sharpe and the battle at Isidoro?

7. Who and what does Sharpe find at a house in San Cristobal?

8. What type of superstitious action does Harper take?

9. How does Sharpe kill Loup and how is Sharpe wounded?

10. What does Sharpe persuade Harper to do and why?

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