View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why are Sharpe and Harper concerned about Teresa?
(a) That she won't be safe during the battle.
(b) That she is pregnant.
(c) That she is held a prisoner.
(d) That Hakeswill wants to kill her.

3. Why does Wellington believe he must take Badajoz immediately?
(a) The French begin to march on Ciudad Rodrigo.
(b) The French are marching towards the English Chanel.
(c) Winter is coming.
(d) The Spanish are marching to Badajoz.

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

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

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

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

9. For what does Sharpe ask permission?
(a) To promote Harper.
(b) To lead the forlorn hope.
(c) To command the reserve company.
(d) To return to his company.

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

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

12. What type of action is Knowles leading?
(a) A diversionary one.
(b) A cavalry action.
(c) An assault on a breach.
(d) A flanking action.

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

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

15. What does Sharpe order the men to do when the French attack?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Sends them into the middle of the French.
(c) Has them make a stand in the ditch.
(d) Orders them back.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Wellington decide as the assault falters in Chapter 24?

3. How is the entire first forlorn hope killed?

4. Where are six external fortresses placed in Badajoz?

5. What does Sharpe do when he reaches the dam?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 547 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample