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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 and 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the French soldiers fight poorly?
(a) They have been marching for two days without rest.
(b) Most of them are ill.
(c) They are too afraid to fight.
(d) They are mostly recruits.

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

3. What does Bampfylde do that nearly wrecks the fortress?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Opens the sea gates and floods it.
(c) Sets fire to it.
(d) Causes the main magazines to be detonated.

4. Who lands as the Marines march away?
(a) Winger's calvery.
(b) No one.
(c) The infantry under Duley.
(d) Sharpe's companies.

5. Who leads the naval expedition near Gujan?
(a) Captain Southerby.
(b) Captain Hornsby.
(c) Captain Bampfylde.
(d) Captain Lyton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of supplies did Sharpe's men carry when marching overland?

2. Why type of attack did the French use after the one in question #145?

3. What does Sharpe do with the American prisoners?

4. With whom does de Maquerre meet up?

5. What is the first town which Sharpe's men encounter?

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