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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5, 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the men do when they approach the fort with Harper?
(a) Bang on the door.
(b) Ask for a surgeon in French.
(c) Stand in front waving a white flag.
(d) Shoot the gate man.

2. Why does Sharpe ask Harper to pull his infected tooth?
(a) So he can go to the medical tent.
(b) So he won't get sick.
(c) He didn't ask him to do that.
(d) In a plan to gain access to the fortress.

3. Why are the French not able to burn their ships?
(a) It's raining too hard.
(b) The French have no ships.
(c) The gunpowder is wet.
(d) The British have already taken them.

4. What is Sharpe ordered to do?
(a) Assassinate the French general.
(b) Capture a fortress that is said to be ill-guarded.
(c) Take out a French man-of-war.
(d) Slip behind the French line and poison their water source.

5. Who assumes command of the force that will assault Teste de Buch?
(a) Killick.
(b) Bampfyle.
(c) Frederickson.
(d) Wigram.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is Jane ill when Sharpe leaves on his mission?

2. What does British intelligence do to the Comte de Maquerre?

3. Why do the British troops stop at the river?

4. Why does Killick surrender?

5. Who is leading the British forces at the beginning of this novel?

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