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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is made for the volunteers?
(a) Protective leather garments.
(b) Homemade weapons.
(c) Field food.
(d) Modest uniforms.

2. Who is with Sharpe at the table in a tavern?
(a) Harper.
(b) A prostitute.
(c) Several of his men.
(d) Captain Huckelby.

3. What word does Sharpe say to the French sentry over and over?
(a) Friend.
(b) Message.
(c) Wounded.
(d) Help.

4. For what does Sharpe search the city?
(a) French supplies.
(b) Gun powder for his men.
(c) Louisa.
(d) Vivar.

5. Why does Sharpe think no woman would want him?
(a) He is a soldier.
(b) His father is a politician.
(c) He is scarred.
(d) He is a low ranking officer.

6. Who wants to give the banner to the French?
(a) The Catholic Church.
(b) Vivar's brother.
(c) No one.
(d) The British.

7. What does Vivar tell Sharpe he can be?
(a) An idiot.
(b) An excellent officer.
(c) A man acting like a child.
(d) A drunkard or a great man.

8. What does Sharpe try to do to Vivar?
(a) Provoke him.
(b) Listen carefully to his plans.
(c) Flatter him.
(d) Shut him up.

9. What does the French colonel say the French will allow?
(a) The Spanish to have the palace.
(b) The Spanish volunteers to go free.
(c) Vivar to have his ceremony.
(d) The townspeople to leave.

10. What does Sharpe notice around the outside of the city?
(a) Vivar's cazadores.
(b) A line of cavalry.
(c) A number of the Spanish volunteers.
(d) The British have surrounded the city.

11. What does Louisa say she intends to do after the battle?
(a) Go with Sharpe.
(b) Return to England.
(c) Stay with Vivar.
(d) Go to France with the French colonel.

12. Why will the riflemen attack with their rifles empty?
(a) To keep from shooting each other.
(b) To keep their powder dry.
(c) To prevent accidental discharge.
(d) To keep their musket balls dry.

13. What kind of precautions do the troops take?
(a) Drinking a lot of water in the hot, dry weather.
(b) Keeping their powder dry in the rain.
(c) Keeping their food from spoiling.
(d) Precautions so they do not make unnecessary noise.

14. What does Louisa think might be affected by her current activities?
(a) Her schooling.
(b) Her engagement.
(c) Her relationship with her aunt and uncle.
(d) Her inheritance.

15. What do Sharpe and Louisa say to each other when he sees her after the battle?
(a) They congratulate each other on the victory.
(b) Sharpe tells her he is angry.
(c) They missed each other.
(d) They discuss the palace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vivar want the riflemen to do which is a change in plans?

2. For what does Harper think the volunteers might be good?

3. How does Sharpe get into the palace?

4. What does Sharpe ask Harper to do with Spanish civilians?

5. How does the battle between the riflemen and the first group of French work out?

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