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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13, 14, and 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Killick and Sharpe feel about each other?
(a) They tolerate each other.
(b) They hate each other.
(c) They develop a genuine if rudimentary friendship.
(d) They respect each other but see the other as an enemy.

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

3. In what direction are Bampfylde's Marines marching?
(a) East.
(b) South.
(c) West.
(d) North.

4. Why does Killick surrender?
(a) He doesn't have anything against the British.
(b) He has been assured of fair treatment.
(c) He is a coward.
(d) He is out numbered.

5. What does a Marine named Robinson do?
(a) Get in a fight with Sharpe.
(b) Kill the town mayor.
(c) Desert his post.
(d) Sexually assaults a local girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the weather like when the French forces meet?

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

3. Of what vital fact is Lassan and Killick unaware?

4. Where does the commodore of the fort send his men?

5. Who first intervenes for the Americans?

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