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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who holds the fort at Almeida?
(a) The Spanish.
(b) The Germans.
(c) The French.
(d) The Portuguese.

2. What does Sharpe admit to Wellington?
(a) Ordering his men to help with the harvest.
(b) Threatening Ayres with a rifle.
(c) Telling Harper he could have leave.
(d) Nothing.

3. Why is Sharpe pleased?
(a) Because Harper has an excellent plan to rescue Kearsey.
(b) Because Teresa is in the village.
(c) Because El Catolico asks for a meeting.
(d) Because Kearsey is not chained in an obscure location.

4. What do Sharpe and the Provosts pretend with each other?
(a) They know each other.
(b) They are both working for the same side.
(c) Civility.
(d) They are both on the winning side.

5. Where does Harper say the gold is?
(a) In the manure.
(b) In El Catolico's wagon.
(c) He does not know.
(d) With the fleeing French.

6. Who reminds the men of their own mortality?
(a) Ramon.
(b) Teresa.
(c) Kelly.
(d) Sharpe.

7. Who appears to be a strong Christian?
(a) Moreno.
(b) Cox.
(c) Kearsey.
(d) Hogan.

8. Who does El Catolico trust?
(a) Kearsey.
(b) Cox.
(c) Sharpe.
(d) Tereasa.

9. Who is Joaquim Jovellanos?
(a) Moreno's bodyguard.
(b) Teresa's fiance.
(c) El Catolico.
(d) The second in command of the Partisans.

10. Where does Sharpe want to look for the gold?
(a) Under a large statue of a famous Spanish revolutionary.
(b) In a grave.
(c) In El Catolico's wagon.
(d) Under the church's altar.

11. Who saved Lawford's life seven years earlier?
(a) Knowles.
(b) Sharpe.
(c) Harper.
(d) Ayres.

12. What is Moreno's connection to Casatejada?
(a) He was born there.
(b) He is a fugitive and wanted there.
(c) No connection.
(d) He used to own a great deal of land there.

13. To what does Teresa admit?
(a) That El Catolico killed Moreno.
(b) That El Catolico killed Hardy.
(c) That the French have more gold.
(d) That there is much more gold in the village.

14. Who does Sharpe take as a hostage?
(a) Hardy.
(b) El Catolico.
(c) Teresa.
(d) Knowles.

15. What does Harper relate to Knowles?
(a) That El Catolico plans to ambush the company.
(b) The story of Harper finding the gold.
(c) That Sharpe is badly wounded from a duel with El Catolico.
(d) That several men are being questioned in the stockade.

Short Answer Questions

1. Against what are the French well fortified?

2. What is the South Essex Regiment of riflemen?

3. To what does El Catolico admit?

4. What does El Catolico plan to do?

5. What does Keasey want to tell the Spanish?

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