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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is in charge of the Teste de Buch?
(a) Commodore Sydney LeShant.
(b) Commodore Henri Lassan.
(c) Commodore LaFayette.
(d) Commodore Pletier.

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

3. What does Bampfylde's Marines do when they arrive at the fortress?
(a) Occupies it.
(b) Tears it down.
(c) Sets it on fire.
(d) Nothing they don't enter the fortress.

4. Where does Napoleon send fresh troops?
(a) Behind the British.
(b) Near the Shuther peninsula.
(c) To Russia.
(d) To the new front.

5. Of what vital fact is Lassan and Killick unaware?
(a) They do not know the marines aren't ill.
(b) They do not know their spy is with the British.
(c) They do not know the British ship will also attack by water.
(d) They do not know about Sharpe's force.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does this novel start?

2. Who suggest the site to which Killick moves his ambush?

3. Why are the French not able to burn their ships?

4. With whom does de Maquerre meet up?

5. Who does Bampfylde credit in his official report to the Admiralty?

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