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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the charges blow at the dam?
(a) The dam blows up.
(b) Half the dam is taken away.
(c) Nothing, it was enough explosives.
(d) A small crack appears in the dam.

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

3. Why might there be massive British casualties when assaulting Badajoz?
(a) The only approach is channeled, dense and predictable.
(b) There is no way to breach the walls.
(c) The French have excellent rifle companies on the walls.
(d) There is so much artillery.

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

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

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

7. How are the walls of Badajoz reinforced?
(a) With a wooden stockade.
(b) With ravelins and a glacis.
(c) With steel girders.
(d) With concrete pilings.

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

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

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

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

12. What does Hakeswill confiscate of Harper's?
(a) His seven-barrel gun.
(b) His rifle.
(c) His bayonet.
(d) His horse.

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

14. What does Hakeswill spend his time thinking about during the assault preparations?
(a) Killing Hogan.
(b) Raping Teresa.
(c) Killing Wellington.
(d) Raping Windham's wife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Windham give Harper?

2. What do the British do when the weather clears in Chapter 17?

3. What does Hakeswill begin to do that makes him appear insane?

4. What does Sharpe find when he returns to the baggage area?

5. About what is Sharpe questioned at the war council?

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