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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 Sharpe command?
(a) A squad of specialized sharpshooters.
(b) No one at the moment.
(c) A battalion of redcoats.
(d) A company of reservists.

2. For what does Caillou blame Gudin when they hear shots in the distance?
(a) Coming into Irati from the South.
(b) Leaving the soldiers' wives behind.
(c) Coming into Irati from the North.
(d) Bringing women along.

3. At what does the French brigade fire?
(a) The partisans.
(b) The archers.
(c) The calvary.
(d) The remaining barrels.

4. Where will Sharpe's men cover the west road?
(a) Brest.
(b) Marseilles.
(c) Ochagavia.
(d) Irati.

5. Whose garrison must Picard rescue?
(a) Nicholl's.
(b) Gudin's.
(c) Sharpe's.
(d) No one's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Sharpe and the other man trying to do?

2. What would cause Sharpe serious problems?

3. Who is the Peer's Chief of Intelligence?

4. Who commands the piquet on the south road?

5. What does Sharpe send D'Alembord to do in the south?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the French do about the remaining barrels, and what is Sharpe facing from the south?

2. What does Cornwell briefly describe in the introduction?

3. What does Gudin do after Caillou breaks the truce?

4. What does Sharpe and d'Alembord see through Sharpe's telescope?

5. How does Gudin feel about leaving the fort at Ochagavia, and what is the group composed of who will be leaving the fort?

6. What does Caillou object to with the leaving of the fort? How does he threaten Gudin? How does Gudin feel about Caillou's threat?

7. Why is General Picard upset? What pleases him about his men? Why does he think he is different from Gudin?

8. What does Cornwell say about Sharpe's Christmas in the introduction?

9. How do the French play into Sharpe's trick with wine barrels?

10. Why does Sharpe have hope the garrison will surrender, and what does the garrison have that Sharpe would like to take?

(see the answer keys)

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