2. What does Sharpe do when Harper thinks Sharpe has agreed with the men?
(a) Attacks Harper.
(b) Has Harper put in chains.
(c) Slaps Harper.
(d) Nothing.

3. What does a lieutenant in a small village do in Chapter 1 right before the British are getting ready to withdraw?
(a) Steals food in his field pack.
(b) Takes rifle ammunition out of a crate.
(c) Burns some crates.
(d) Gets drunk.

4. Who does Vivar tell Sharpe is coming to the fortress?
(a) His father.
(b) A huge number of soldiers.
(c) Some men.
(d) A delegation from the French.

5. What do the riflemen do as the British retreat from the French?
(a) Guard the rear.
(b) Take the point.
(c) Conduct guerrilla warfare.
(d) Guard the flanks.

6. What will Vivar's troops do in the morning?
(a) Stay at the village.
(b) Go to Madrid.
(c) Go to Lisbon.
(d) Continue on to Satiago de Compostela.

7. Who is killed when the French assault the farmhouse?
(a) Parker.
(b) Williams.
(c) Blackman.
(d) Logan.

8. Why does Vivar bury the French dead?
(a) So they don't attract wild animals.
(b) So their ghosts won't bother him.
(c) So they don't spread disease.
(d) So they have a Christian burial.

9. What does Harper suggest they do with the Parker's carriage?
(a) Load it with gunpowder and blow it up when the French are by it.
(b) Send it barreling into the French cavalry.
(c) Tip it over to block the road.
(d) Burn it.

10. In what direction is Davila supposed to go when he leaves Vivar?
(a) East.
(b) West.
(c) North.
(d) South.

11. What does Sharpe learn about the road to Lisbon?
(a) There is more than one road going there.
(b) The road is full of Spanish refugees.
(c) The road is clear.
(d) The road has been destroyed.

12. What does the sergeant Williams order the riflemen to do before the second attack of the French?
(a) Drop into the trenches.
(b) Go to the woods.
(c) Form a square.
(d) Charge the French.

13. What does Sharpe tell Harper he plans for the troops to do?
(a) Head for the ocean.
(b) Go to Madrid.
(c) March to Lisbon.
(d) Stay where they are until the British main force finds them.

14. What does Vivar ask Sharpe to recount at the dinner table?
(a) How Sharpe saved Vivar.
(b) What Sharpe believes is in the strongbox.
(c) Sharpe's military experience.
(d) Sharpe's family history.

15. What keeps French reinforcements from crushing Vivar and Sharpe?
(a) Sharpe kills the French commanding officer.
(b) Harper gets loose and cuts them off.
(c) A forest fire on the south.
(d) The French have to cross a river.