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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Windham dispatch Sharpe to the dam?
(a) To find out what's going on with the demolition team.
(b) To help ward off some of the defenders.
(c) To be near when the dam blows.
(d) To take dry powder to the dam.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Sharpe assigned following the mission at the dam?

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

4. Who does Sharpe suspect of stealing?

5. How do the assembled men feel about Harper's punishment?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Badajoz finally taken?

2. What does Rymer do when the French mount a sortie while Sharpe is watching the digging? What are the French trying to do and what is the British response? What does Sharpe do?

3. What does Sharpe find when he returns to the baggage train, why is Windham angry and what is the conclusion about the incident?

4. How are the French able to kill so many of the British, what does that cause and how does Sharpe feel as he watches?

5. What is Robert Knowles doing at the beginning of the attack and who does he think about when planning his actions?

6. What is Sharpe doing at the beginning of the assault on Badajoz?

7. Describe the fortifications of Badajoz.

8. What is foreshadowed in Sharpe's humiliation of Hakeswill?

9. At first, what does Sharpe do while the British are dealing with the Rivillas Stream?

10. What has the French built across the Rivillas Stream and what do the British do about it?

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