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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe do with the Spanish?
(a) Send them to Madrid after Hardy.
(b) Leave them in the village after receiving their parole.
(c) Lock them up.
(d) Kill them.

2. Who arrives for Sharpe to question?
(a) El Catolico.
(b) Teresa.
(c) Moreno.
(d) Ramon.

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

4. Who is Major Kearsey?
(a) Wellington's contact in Brussels.
(b) The head of the Provosts.
(c) Sharpe's contact in Brest.
(d) Sharpe's contact in Almeida.

5. Where do Teresa and El Catolico say Hardy is?
(a) He is dead.
(b) The French have him.
(c) He returned to Portugal.
(d) He returned to Madrid.

6. Who are tied to two horses coming out of town?
(a) Two naked Spanish peasants.
(b) Naked French soldiers.
(c) Two women.
(d) No one.

7. What sort of demonstration do Sharpe's men give?
(a) Their sword fighting ability.
(b) None.
(c) Their shooting abilities.
(d) Their ability to torture.

8. What does Sharpe order his company to do after firing once?
(a) Surrender.
(b) Run.
(c) Square up.
(d) Drop to the ground.

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

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

11. What does Lieutenant Ayres do?
(a) Argues with Sharpe about the war.
(b) Shoots at Sharpe from behind a barndoor.
(c) Catches one of Sharpe's men with a chicken.
(d) Kills one of Sharpe's men.

12. How many bags of gold do they find?
(a) 39.
(b) 63.
(c) 22.
(d) 108.

13. What does El Catolico say he will do to Sharpe's men?
(a) Report them.
(b) Reward them.
(c) Lead them on a shortcut.
(d) Kill them.

14. Who is Ramon?
(a) A man who is nailed to the wall.
(b) Harper's best friend besides Sharpe.
(c) Sharpe's quartermaster.
(d) A man who knows where the gold is.

15. Who do they use to find their way through the dark?
(a) Hagman.
(b) Harper.
(c) Kearsey.
(d) A dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the British attempt to stay on good terms with the locals?

2. Where does Harper say the gold is?

3. Who does the South Essex Regiment encounter?

4. What does Sharpe worry about on his men's approach to the village?

5. Who is Michael Hogan?

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