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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pot-au-Fea so when Sharpe reaches the castle?
(a) Go to the village.
(b) Shoot Harper.
(c) Commit his main force.
(d) Run away to the hills.

2. What do Sharpe and Harper do when they see the British attack faltering?
(a) Shoot Farthingdale.
(b) Call a retreat.
(c) Lead a counter attack.
(d) Sneak into the castle through a tunnel.

3. What type of attack does the French commander favor?
(a) Having someone on the inside open the gates.
(b) Guerrilla type warfare.
(c) Burning the castle.
(d) An attack en masse.

4. What has Sharpe lost after the initial French advance?
(a) Rocket artillery.
(b) Nothing.
(c) One third of his men.
(d) Surprise.

5. How do the British use the remaining rockets?
(a) They keep them for last minute defense.
(b) For setting off the avalanche charge.
(c) As incendiary devices.
(d) As hand-thrown bombs.

6. What does Sharpe arrange for on the day after Christmas?
(a) A fake withdrawal.
(b) Sending the rocket arillery back to the base.
(c) A parley with the French.
(d) Dinner for the enlisted soldiers.

7. Of what does much of the talk between the French and the British consist?
(a) Why Dubreton's wife was being held hostage.
(b) How to withdraw from Andrados peacefully.
(c) Who will remain at Andrados.
(d) Talk about Farthingdale's book.

8. What happens after the French are repulsed from the castle the first time?
(a) A truce is called to recover the wounded and dead.
(b) The French leave Andrdos for a while.
(c) Sharpe organizes to withdraw.
(d) The French send in Dubreton to talk to Sharpe.

9. What was the castle originally?
(a) A wealthy landowner's summer place.
(b) A small Spanish garrison.
(c) The Duke's residence.
(d) A Portugal outpost.

10. What do the British do when the French artillery begins?
(a) Target the artillery soldiers.
(b) Send rockets into their artillery.
(c) Abandons all positions outside the castle.
(d) Surrender.

11. What do the French emphasize about the British forces?
(a) Their small numbers.
(b) Their lack of reinforcements.
(c) Their incompetency.
(d) Their lack of supplies.

12. What does Sharpe realize as he waits for the attack of the French after the convent is destroyed?
(a) He should surrender.
(b) He will fail to delay the French much longer.
(c) He can still win this battle.
(d) He needs to withdraw his forces.

13. What does Sharpe hope to do after the first French attack?
(a) Get a message out for reinforcements.
(b) Set up a counter attack.
(c) Be able to quietly send troops behind the French.
(d) Delay another attack for at least 48 hours.

14. What do the French do shortly after Sharpe discovers Teresa's body?
(a) Withdraw to the village.
(b) Attack once again.
(c) Come under a flag of truce.
(d) Nothing.

15. What does Sharpe do with the newly arrived unit?
(a) Send them to the village.
(b) Keep them outside the south gate.
(c) Conceal them in the convent.
(d) Put them in the castle central yard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dubreton do when he comes up to Sharpe?

2. Who surprises Sharpe with a visit?

3. How do the French feel about the British?

4. What is bandaged on Farthingdale when he comes outside?

5. Why was Sharpe flogged in India?

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