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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Major Dunnet tell Captain Murray about the lieutenant?
(a) The lieutenant is a great tactician.
(b) He is incompetent.
(c) The lieutenant's men won't listen to him.
(d) He is not a real officer.

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

3. What do the lieutenant's clothes look like?
(a) Correct and proper.
(b) Tattered.
(c) Like an enlisted man's uniform.
(d) They are covered in blood.

4. What do the British and Spanish troops do while traveling west?
(a) Fight the French.
(b) Form into a cohesive army.
(c) Stay off the main roads.
(d) Have minor brawls between the British and the Spanish troops.

5. What does Sharpe say he plans to do about the French to the French negotiator?
(a) He doesn't know what he plans to do.
(b) He plans to leave that night.
(c) He has no desire to fight.
(d) He plans to capture all the French troops.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe do when Harper thinks Sharpe has agreed with the men?

2. Why is Sharpe worried about Louisa?

3. What does Sharpe advise George to do?

4. Where was Vivar when his wife died?

5. What does Williams tell Sharpe that Vivar has told Williams about the strongbox?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sharpe do to talk to the French and what is the French colonel's appearance like compared to Sharpe?

2. What does Williams tell Harper about Sharpe and what does Sharpe tell Williams to do? What is Williams suggestion to Sharpe?

3. What does Vivar tell Sharpe about Vivar's troops?

4. What does Sharpe have his riflemen do when the French ambush them?

5. What does Vivar asks Sharpe and what does Sharpe decide to do after speaking with Vivar?

6. What does Mrs. Parker say about Santiago de Compostela and the British?

7. What does Vivar ask Sharpe to recount and what does Vivar explain to Sharpe? Where does he ask Sharpe to go?

8. What does Sharpe order the Parkers to do and what does Sharpe do when Mrs. Parker refuses?

9. Why do Sharpe's men begin to call out enthusiastically when the Parkers come in front of the assembly and what does Mrs. Parker explain to Sharpe?

10. What does Sharpe ask from the Parkers when they stop in a small town for the night and what does Sharpe end up doing for his men?

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