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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 does Sharpe send Harper to collect?
(a) Unused rifles.
(b) Ammunition.
(c) Live birds.
(d) Bones from the ossery.

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

4. What does Sharpe realize about the French?
(a) They are friendly for now.
(b) They just came for Dubreton's wife.
(c) They mean to invade Spain.
(d) They mean to take over Andrados.

5. What does Farthingdale do when he comes outside?
(a) Introduces Josefina as his wife.
(b) Assumes command.
(c) Introduces himself to Dubreton's wife.
(d) Sits down for tea.

6. Who escapes that upsets Sharpe?
(a) Hakeswill.
(b) No one.
(c) Josefina.
(d) Pot-au-Fea.

7. What does Sharpe know about the French and his position?
(a) Troops are coming to help him.
(b) The French will give up if he kills a few more of them.
(c) He won't be able to stop them forever.
(d) He has the advantage.

8. From what country is Harper?
(a) England.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Wales.
(d) America.

9. What does the French do the day after the convent is destroyed?
(a) They ask for a parley.
(b) They begin to throw fire bombs onto the castle.
(c) They request a truce to remove bodies.
(d) They begin a coordinated attack.

10. Who is recovered by the French and handed over to the British?
(a) Hakeswill.
(b) No one.
(c) Josefina.
(d) Hogan.

11. On the day after Christmas how do the convent and the castle appear to the French?
(a) Fortified.
(b) Full.
(c) On fire.
(d) Deserted.

12. What British unit finally shows up at Andradro?
(a) The cavalry.
(b) The British infantry.
(c) Frederickson's rifle unit.
(d) The rocket artillery unit.

13. How does Pierre Ducos appear to Sharpe?
(a) Curious.
(b) Gracious.
(c) Offensive and insubordinate.
(d) Friendly.

14. Where are the French packed into during their last attack?
(a) The castle courtyard.
(b) The trench.
(c) In the convent.
(d) At the main gatehouse tower.

15. What do the French do after their second attack?
(a) Surrender.
(b) Call for a truce to recover wounded.
(c) Smash at the castle walls with their artillery.
(d) Withdraw to the village.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Farthingdale seem to be oblivious about?

2. What does Sharpe arrange for on the day after Christmas?

3. What was the book about that Farthingdale wrote?

4. How do the French feel about the British?

5. How would an artillery unit get to the castle?

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