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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. With what specific does Calvet begin to bombard the fortress?
(a) Howitzers.
(b) Catapults.
(c) Cannons.
(d) Artillery.

2. Where does Lassan take his men?
(a) To Gujan.
(b) To a ship.
(c) To LeGullete.
(d) No where, they surrendered.

3. What is Maquerre supposed to tell Bampfylde?
(a) Sharpe's men have been captured.
(b) Sharpe's men have been destroyed.
(c) Sharpe's men have turned away from the road to Bordeaux.
(d) Sharpe has been taken prisoner.

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

5. What will Sharpe do while Teste de Buch is being assaulted?
(a) Return to the British lines, he was just a trick for spies.
(b) Proceed to Bordeaux.
(c) Stay out of sight as a back-up force.
(d) Stay on the ship and move towards Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the British decide they need to divert the French from the bridge site?

2. What does Calvet worry about at the fortress?

3. Why has Wigram attached another man to Sharpe's forces?

4. How do Sharpe and his men get across the Leyre River?

5. Why is Killick intervening in the battle at Teste de Buch?

(see the answer key)

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