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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of attack does the French commander favor?
(a) Guerrilla type warfare.
(b) An attack en masse.
(c) Having someone on the inside open the gates.
(d) Burning the castle.

2. What happens after the French are repulsed from the castle the first time?
(a) The French leave Andrdos for a while.
(b) The French send in Dubreton to talk to Sharpe.
(c) Sharpe organizes to withdraw.
(d) A truce is called to recover the wounded and dead.

3. What is the name of Sharpe's daughter?
(a) Stepanie.
(b) Louisa.
(c) Antonia.
(d) Maria.

4. What do the British do when the French artillery begins?
(a) Target the artillery soldiers.
(b) Send rockets into their artillery.
(c) Surrender.
(d) Abandons all positions outside the castle.

5. Who wins the fight at the gatehouse?
(a) The British.
(b) The French.
(c) No one.
(d) Pot-au-Fea.

6. From where does the first attack of the French fall back?
(a) The castle walls.
(b) At the castle main gate.
(c) At the convent.
(d) In the castle courtyard.

7. Who was Sharpe's mother?
(a) The wife of a Lord.
(b) An artist.
(c) A prostitute.
(d) He doesn't know who his mother is.

8. What was the book about that Farthingdale wrote?
(a) Military strategy.
(b) The political situation in the House of Lords.
(c) Hunting foxes with hounds.
(d) Courtship.

9. What does Sharpe insist on with Farthingdale?
(a) A private conversation.
(b) That he leave for the British base immediately.
(c) That he assume command of the war council.
(d) That only he surreder to the French.

10. How does the French feel about the British defense of the castle?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Surprised.
(c) Confident.
(d) Indifferent.

11. What does Frederickson repel at the watch tower?
(a) A French battering ram.
(b) A small French reconnaissance force.
(c) French dragoons.
(d) A massed French attack.

12. What does Farthingdale decide to do at the war council?
(a) Put Sharpe in command.
(b) Demand fortify the convent and castle.
(c) Have Sharpe arrested.
(d) Dismiss it as unnecessary.

13. What has Sharpe lost after the initial French advance?
(a) One third of his men.
(b) Surprise.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Rocket artillery.

14. How would an artillery unit get to the castle?
(a) Men pushing the cannons.
(b) They would be unable to negotiate the steep road.
(c) Drawn by mules.
(d) On horse drawn wagons.

15. What did the British intercept a couple of days before Christmas?
(a) Messages stating that Napoleon is seriously injured.
(b) French plans to attack Andrados.
(c) French plans to invade Spain.
(d) A French force moving to join the one attacking Sharpe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Farthingdale tell the council about his head wound?

2. What happens when the convent blows up?

3. What does Sharpe begin to do after the French are spotted?

4. What does Sharpe send Harper to collect?

5. How did Teresa die?

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