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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 is being done to a woman with a hot iron?
(a) She is having her fingers burned.
(b) A long scar is put on her face.
(c) She is being branded on her breasts.
(d) Nothing.

2. What does Josefina say about Lord Farthingdale and her past?
(a) He doesn't know about it.
(b) She is planning to tell him.
(c) She doesn't want him to know about it.
(d) He knows about it.

3. What does Farthingdale decide to do on Christmas day?
(a) Attack the castle.
(b) Leave with the women.
(c) Have a large Christmas dinner.
(d) Wait for reinforcements.

4. What day is it when Sharpe has secured the convent?
(a) Thanksgiving.
(b) New Year's Day.
(c) Easter.
(d) Christmas Eve.

5. What type of terrain does Sharpe have to cross to get to Andrados?
(a) An open plain.
(b) Forests.
(c) A mountain pass.
(d) A swampy land.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the head of the army which subdues Andrados?

2. What does Sharpe receive from the person in question #14?

3. What is wrong physically with General Nairn at the beginning of the book?

4. Why has Lady Farthingdale come to Andrados?

5. What does Farthingdale do when the attacking forces withdraw?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Sharpe meet who is head of the rifle company going to Andrados, what is that man like and how does Sharpe feel about him?

2. What does Sharpe do with the prisoners and what bothers him the most about the prisoners as far as who he wanted to capture?

3. What does Sharpe first do when he takes over his new command and to what conclusions does he come?

4. What happens to Sharpe and the three others in the convent shortly after they meet?

5. What does Nairn tell Sharpe when he is summoned in Chapter 3?

6. What do Pot-au-Feu and Hakeswill suggest to Sharpe and the others and what are they doing while they talk?

7. How does Sharpe feel as Farthingdale is getting ready and what do the defenders of the castle do?

8. What happens to the gold Sharpe brought with him and what kind of reassurance does Pot-au-Feu give? What do the men learn from that reassurance?

9. Where and at what time is the Prologue set?

10. Before whom is Sharpe summoned in Chapter one, what is that man like and why is he summoned?

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