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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does El Catolico plan to do?
(a) Kill Ramon.
(b) Kill Sharpe.
(c) Set up Sharpe's company.
(d) Help Almeida.

3. What does Sharpe's men have orders to do to pursuers?
(a) Shoot to kill.
(b) Torture for information.
(c) Strip and send back to the village.
(d) Nothing.

4. Who do Harper and Sharpe capture?
(a) A Polish General.
(b) A Spanish interpreter.
(c) A German artillery man.
(d) A Polish lancer.

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

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

7. Why does Kearsey halt the group outside Casatejada?
(a) He has to sneak in and warn the town not to shoot.
(b) The French lie in wait to ambush anyone.
(c) They need to rest before fighting.
(d) They are waiting for the artillery to arrive.

8. Who does the South Essex Regiment encounter?
(a) The German Legion.
(b) The Dragoons.
(c) The Spanish peasant battalion.
(d) The Destriers.

9. What does Kearsey worry the Spanish will do if they do not receive the gold?
(a) Attack British isolated pockets of troops.
(b) Refuse to support the British.
(c) Pull out of the territories they are holding.
(d) Nothing.

10. How is Kearsey performance as a guide?
(a) Unrealistic.
(b) Excellent.
(c) Bungling.
(d) Haphazard.

11. How does the woman lead Sharpe to his men?
(a) Through a trap door.
(b) The men find Sharpe.
(c) Through several alleyways.
(d) Around the west side of town.

12. Who is Cox?
(a) The head of the Provosts in Peauqot.
(b) The English commander at Almeida.
(c) The English commander at Brussels.
(d) The English commander at Brest.

13. What worries Sharpe?
(a) Knowles report and Teresa's attitude.
(b) The loss of their horses.
(c) The emplacements on the opposite bank.
(d) Nothing.

14. Where does Kearsey say the gold is hidden?
(a) In a secret passageway in the fortress.
(b) It is not in the village.
(c) Under the hermitage in the Moreno family vault.
(d) In a vault in the graveyard.

15. Who is Michael Hogan?
(a) An Irish engineer.
(b) An Irish scout.
(c) A British gunsmith.
(d) A British blacksmith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who descends upon Sharpe's company?

2. Who is Cesar Moreno?

3. Who is Major Kearsey?

4. Who points out the possible danger to Sharpe?

5. What does Sharpe do with the Spanish?

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