2. What does Farthingdale wonder about the French?
(a) If they think he speaks good French.
(b) Why they are being friendly.
(c) If they plan to attack.
(d) Why they are there.

3. What type of casualties do the French take from their second attack on the castle?
(a) Very few.
(b) Fifty percent of the French were killed.
(c) Ten percent.
(d) Thirty percent.

4. What does Sharpe tell Farthingdale about Lady Farthingdale?
(a) She will be a liability.
(b) He knows all about her.
(c) She has had a child by Sharpe.
(d) Harper was planning to marry her.

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

6. What does Farthingdale decide to do at the war council?
(a) Demand fortify the convent and castle.
(b) Put Sharpe in command.
(c) Have Sharpe arrested.
(d) Dismiss it as unnecessary.

7. What happens when the convent blows up?
(a) The French give up and leave.
(b) All the French artillery is destroyed.
(c) The British prepare a counterattack.
(d) Harper is killed.

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

9. Why was Sharpe flogged in India?
(a) He refused a direct order.
(b) He slept with the commanding officer's wife.
(c) He hit an officer.
(d) Framed by Hakeswill for a crime.

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

11. What happens to Hakeswill at the end of the novel?
(a) He is shot by firing squad.
(b) He is sent to prison.
(c) He is hanged.
(d) He is transported.

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

13. What do the French do after their first approach ends in disaster for them?
(a) Ask for a parley with Sharpe.
(b) Begin preparations for a serious assault.
(c) Destroy his rocket artillery.
(d) Withdraw to the village.

14. What are the troops spotted doing?
(a) Converging on the convent.
(b) Preparing to attack the castle.
(c) Reconnoitering the far side of the town.
(d) Coming over the mountain pass.

15. Who wins the fight at the gatehouse?
(a) The British.
(b) Pot-au-Fea.
(c) No one.
(d) The French.