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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 Frederickson repel at the watch tower?
(a) French dragoons.
(b) A massed French attack.
(c) A French battering ram.
(d) A small French reconnaissance force.

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

3. How do many of Pot-au-Fea's men escape?
(a) Swimming the moat.
(b) Over the south wall.
(c) Through a tunnel.
(d) Dodging through the village.

4. What does Sharpe do when the French are fifty yards from the trench?
(a) Send the rockets through their ranks.
(b) Release an avalanche stones on them.
(c) Counterattack with cavalry.
(d) Set fire to the trench.

5. How does Sharpe feel when he sees Teresa's body?
(a) Sad.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Horrofied.
(d) Indifferent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the convent blows up?

2. Who escapes that upsets Sharpe?

3. From where does the first attack of the French fall back?

4. What does the person from question #170 say to Sharpe?

5. What does Farthingdale feel about the French's intentions?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the French respond after the first two attacks?

2. What does Hakeswill do during the battle and after the French are repulsed?

3. What do Sharpe and Harper do when the British attack is faltering?

4. Why doesn't the French take the castle?

5. What do the British do with the last of the rocket artillery?

6. What happens when Dubreton comes up to Sharpe?

7. What is Hakeswill's ultimate fate?

8. What does the French agree to and why does Sharpe agree to it?

9. What happens to Hakeswill when the French arrive?

10. What does Sharpe capture first at the castle and how does he do it?

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