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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 does Calvet hit the fortress after the bombardment?
(a) Calvery.
(b) Sappers.
(c) Canisters.
(d) Cannon.

2. What does Sharpe decide to do after he receives news from de Maquerre?
(a) Go immediately to Bordeaux.
(b) Return to the British encampment.
(c) Return to Teste de Buch.
(d) Make camp where he is.

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

4. What kind of time do the rifle companies make marching?
(a) Methodical, neither slow nor fast.
(b) Extremely good time.
(c) They run a a fast sprint the entire ten miles.
(d) Slow.

5. What does Bampfylde keep looking for back at the beach?
(a) Lassan and his men.
(b) British ships to pick him and his men up.
(c) Thuella.
(d) A way through the mountains to Bordeaux.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe worry about from his wound?

2. What do the French do besides bombard and shell the fortress?

3. What does Lassan and his men do when the British enter the fort?

4. Where was Sharpe shot during the taking of Teste de Buch?

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

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