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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Sharpe lead his men?
(a) To the new center breach.
(b) Near the breach on the right.
(c) To the back of the hills.
(d) Near the breach on the left.

2. Why does Wellington launch two suicidal attacks?
(a) To kill off some undesirables.
(b) To pin down the French defenders.
(c) To take the citadel.
(d) To make the French know he is serious.

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

4. With what type of gun does Harper think Sharpe was shot?
(a) A pistol.
(b) The seven-barrel gun.
(c) A rifle.
(d) An old muskrat.

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

6. How do the two diversionary attacks end up?
(a) They are all killed.
(b) Successful.
(c) They are half successful.
(d) As failures.

7. Why are the men of Sharpe's old company not doing their job?
(a) Rymer is too indecisive.
(b) They are finished with their part of the operation.
(c) Rymer forgot the plan.
(d) They have killed all the defenders.

8. What makes the British tasks more difficult?
(a) The French running sorties.
(b) Constant rain and thick mud.
(c) The thick trees.
(d) Rocky ground.

9. What does Windham realize about punishing Harper?
(a) It was a mistake.
(b) It should have been done in private.
(c) It got the men ready for battle.
(d) It was the right thing to do.

10. What causes the first assault wave to falter in Chapter 24?
(a) The breach being filled by the French.
(b) The huge number of casualties.
(c) Heavy rain coming down.
(d) The French cavalry.

11. What attacks the protecting fortress while another force attacks the dam in Chapter 18?
(a) No one attacks the fortress.
(b) Fifteen heavy cavalry.
(c) A squad of sappers.
(d) A large diversionary force.

12. About what is Sharpe questioned at the war council?
(a) His judgment on the breaches.
(b) Why the attack on the dam failed.
(c) How to scale the northern wall.
(d) Where the French are located.

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

14. What does Windham do to Harper?
(a) Has him beaten and court martialed.
(b) Puts him in chains.
(c) Sentences him to a flogging.
(d) Throws him to the French.

15. What does Hakeswill begin to do that makes him appear insane?
(a) Jerking his arms for no apparent reason.
(b) Talking to the animals.
(c) Staring into his shako and speaking to it.
(d) Crawling on his belly for no reason.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Knowles intend to do with his orders?

2. Where do Sharpe and his men assemble prior to their assault?

3. How does the British mount an attack on the dam?

4. Why was the Rivillas Stream dammed?

5. What has been stolen of Windham's?

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