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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. 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.

2. What has been stolen of Windham's?
(a) His spare boots.
(b) His sword.
(c) The portrait of his wife.
(d) His spare uniform.

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

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

5. What is Sharpe's assignment at the beginning of the assault on Badajoz?
(a) Guiding forward units into their assault position.
(b) Throwing hay into the ditch.
(c) Scaling the northern tower.
(d) Running errands for Windham.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Windham realize as he watches the maneuvers at the dam?

2. How is Sharpe detailed during the attack on the bastions?

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

4. Who is selected for the assault on the dam?

5. What do the British do with the captured bastion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

4. Why do the British delay the assault one more day in Chapter 23?

5. What do the British troops do after the weather clears in Chapter 17 and what do they decide about the plain?

6. What do the British forces begin to do when they arrive at Badajoz and what makes their tasks more difficult?

7. Why does Windham realize he made a mistake and what does he do to mitigate it?

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

9. What does Windham do to Harper and what do Harper and Sharpe talk about before the event?

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

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