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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rymer do when the French attack in Chapter 13?
(a) Sends his men in the wrong direction.
(b) Panics.
(c) Goes on the offense.
(d) Sets up a reasonable defense.

2. How is the entire first forlorn hope killed?
(a) The French shoot all of them.
(b) A wall falls on them.
(c) A massive mine explodes.
(d) They are mowed down with cannon fire.

3. What do the British forces begin to do when they arrive at Badajoz?
(a) Setting up a fire line.
(b) Setting up catapults.
(c) Digging parallels and approaches.
(d) Digging under the southern wall.

4. What is the force going to the dam supposed to do?
(a) Dig through the dike.
(b) Set explosive charges.
(c) Kill the company guarding the dam.
(d) Unleash the gates.

5. What do the French do when the British attack?
(a) Pushes them into a mined area.
(b) Retreat.
(c) Turn on them.
(d) Breaks up the ditches the British have dug.

6. How does Knowles base his conduct during the assault?
(a) He is creative and sends his men to strange places.
(b) He's a by the book officer.
(c) On what he believes Sharpe would do.
(d) On what is the most honorable thing to do.

7. How do the assembled men feel about Harper's punishment?
(a) Delighted.
(b) Sarcastic.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Disgusted.

8. What do the walls of Badajoz have on them?
(a) Artillery.
(b) Jagged rocks.
(c) Iron pikes.
(d) Barbed wire.

9. Why was the Rivillas Stream dammed?
(a) To provide drinking water for the city.
(b) To make rice paddies.
(c) To water the crops on the west side.
(d) To flood an expanse east of the city.

10. What does Sharpe do when he gets to his old company?
(a) Finds Hakeswill.
(b) Rallies the men.
(c) Slaps Rymer to get him moving.
(d) Finds Harper.

11. Why is Sharpe summoned to his old company?
(a) Harper has been injured.
(b) Rymer has frozen up.
(c) Hakeswill has disappeared.
(d) Rymer has been killed.

12. What action by Rymer does Sharpe stop after the dam mission?
(a) Folding the green coats into the company.
(b) Killing Hakeswill.
(c) Demoting Harper.
(d) Blaming Sharpe for the failure of the mission.

13. What fills the ditch?
(a) Water.
(b) Dead bodies.
(c) Mines.
(d) Muskrat balls.

14. What protects the northern side of Badajoz?
(a) The River Guadiana and the Rivillas Stream.
(b) A heavy forest.
(c) A swamp.
(d) The Mediterranean Sea.

15. What does Sharpe find when he returns to the baggage area?
(a) The mules' paniers are strewed about the ground.
(b) Two packs are missing.
(c) Harper is drunk.
(d) Someone has broken into some of the packs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harper find for Sharpe?

2. What does Sharpe order the men to do when the French attack?

3. What happens when the charges blow at the dam?

4. Why does Wellington call a council of war?

5. What do the British do with the captured bastion?

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