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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 and 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bampfylde do that nearly wrecks the fortress?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Sets fire to it.
(c) Causes the main magazines to be detonated.
(d) Opens the sea gates and floods it.

2. Who does Sharpe visit before leaving on his mission?
(a) Major Jones.
(b) Colonel Hogan.
(c) Colonel Smithwood.
(d) Captain Southerby.

3. What do the Facture town authorities try to do?
(a) Capture Sharpe.
(b) Leave the town.
(c) Blow up the toll-bridge.
(d) Surrender to Sharpe.

4. Why does Sharpe do as he is told?
(a) He believes an order is an order.
(b) He would be court martialed.
(c) He knows he doesn't have all the facts.
(d) The ship is left and he has no choice.

5. Why does Sharpe fear for his troops?
(a) They are going in first.
(b) He thinks they have picked up the fever.
(c) They have to fight all the way to Paris.
(d) He remembers Elphinstone's warning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the addition of another high ranking officer do to the French forces?

2. What does Sharpe and his men scavenge from the fort?

3. What surprises Sharpe when they arrive at their mission site?

4. What does Sharpe do after they cross the Leyre River?

5. What does Sharpe think about Harper's story?

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