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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 Sharpe do with Pot-au-Fea?
(a) Hangs him.
(b) Hands him over to the French.
(c) Locks him in a cell.
(d) Shoots him with a firing squad.

2. Where is the majority of Sharpe's forces concentrated?
(a) In the convent.
(b) In the town.
(c) They are evenly distributed.
(d) In the castle.

3. Who interviews Sharpe back at the British base?
(a) The Regent Prince.
(b) Wellington.
(c) Hogan.
(d) Farthingdale.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the castle originally?

2. Why isn't Frederickson's fire on the advancing column effective?

3. Why was Sharpe flogged in India?

4. Where are the French packed into during their last attack?

5. How does Pierre Ducos appear to Sharpe?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens to Hakeswill when the French arrive?

5. How many forces does Sharpe estimate are arrayed between the French and the British soldiers?

6. What happens after the French retreat?

7. Who does Shapre meet from the French forces and how does that meeting go? How do the French feel about the British?

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

9. What do the British do when they capture the castle and what do some of Pot-au-Fea's men do?

10. What do the British leaders do on Christmas?

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