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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. Who are leaving the city after the French come out of the palace?
(a) Refugees.
(b) No one.
(c) Vivar and his men.
(d) The French.

2. What does Vivar want the riflemen to do which is a change in plans?
(a) To go directly to the palace.
(b) To charge past a guardhouse and not engage the enemy.
(c) To take the gatehouse and set up snipers.
(d) To shoot from the hills.

3. What does Sharpe tell Vivar?
(a) That de l'Eclin is in the palace.
(b) That there are British soldiers outside the city.
(c) That de l'Eclin is outside the city.
(d) That he must leave the town immediately.

4. What does Sharpe first find inside the strongbox?
(a) A book.
(b) A pair of knives.
(c) A leather box.
(d) A leather bag.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Vivar asks Sharpe after the first battle?

3. At what time will the banner ceremony occur?

4. Why would Vivar not hang the banner in Santiago de Compostela?

5. Where does Sharpe burst into?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sharpe hear as the riflemen are fighting and who appears? Why are the Cazadores fighting so hard?

2. What does Vivar tell Sharpe and what does he do?

3. How long do the troops march and what do the riflemen do to keep their movement a secret?

4. What does the French colonel tell Sharpe and what is Sharpe's response?

5. How do the townspeople react to the British and Spanish attacking?

6. What is Harper's idea about the Spanish volunteers?

7. What does Louisa tell Sharpe when they meet in the palace and what does Sharpe figure out from what she says?

8. What do Sharpe and Louisa talk about and what is Louisa's idea? How does Sharpe feel about her idea?

9. What kind of idea does Sharpe have and what is Vivar's response?

10. What happens when Sharpe enters the palace?

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