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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Knowles intend to do with his orders?
(a) Retreat.
(b) Pretend to be fighting.
(c) Pretend to want to scale the citadel.
(d) Actually carry out the assault.

3. What is in the very center of Badajoz?
(a) A huge cathedral.
(b) The governor's mansion.
(c) A statue of Napoleon.
(d) Six fortresses.

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

5. What do the British do with the captured bastion?
(a) Put in more catpults.
(b) Set up more buttress cannons.
(c) Set up more scaling ladders.
(d) Set up more siege cannons.

6. What has Sharpe been doing under Hogan's command?
(a) As an aide-de-camp.
(b) As a tactics adviser.
(c) Commanding a company.
(d) Working as a scout.

7. What do the British decide they must do with the flooded plain?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Avoid it.
(c) Float across it on rafts.
(d) Drain it.

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

9. What happens when Sharpe goes forward to watch the digging in Chapter 12?
(a) Two men jump him.
(b) He finds Harper.
(c) A French sortie comes out.
(d) A wall collapses.

10. What are emplaced against two of the bastions?
(a) Catapults.
(b) Buttress cannons.
(c) Scaling ladders.
(d) Siege cannons.

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

12. Who captures one of the bastions?
(a) The Spanish.
(b) Sharpe's company.
(c) A British assault force.
(d) No one.

13. Where is Sharpe assigned following the mission at the dam?
(a) The baggage train.
(b) Hakeswill's squad.
(c) He stays with Windham.
(d) Hogan's command.

14. What does Sharpe do after setting the charges?
(a) He returns to Windham.
(b) He retreats.
(c) He pushes on to the fortress.
(d) He hides in the boulders near the dam.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are six external fortresses placed in Badajoz?

2. For what does Sharpe ask permission?

3. How does Knowles base his conduct during the assault?

4. What does Rymer do when the French attack in Chapter 13?

5. What does Hakeswill spend his time thinking about during the assault preparations?

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