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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. What does Calvet want to do?
(a) Pull back and let the British starve.
(b) Leave a pining force and head south.
(c) Blow up the entire fort.
(d) Parlay a truce.

2. How do Sharpe and his men get across the Leyre River?
(a) Toll-bridge.
(b) They build rafts.
(c) Wade.
(d) Boats.

3. On what peninsula has the British forces been fighting?
(a) Shuther.
(b) Iberian.
(c) Panama.
(d) Bengali.

4. What does Sharpe do the day after the fort was captured?
(a) Rests his men.
(b) Returns to the river.
(c) Marches inland.
(d) Marches down the coast.

5. What does the sortie led by Frederickson accomplish?
(a) Takes dozens of French lives.
(b) Breaks the siege.
(c) Not much.
(d) Acquires some more gunpowder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Sharpe anger at himself?

2. What does Sharpe and his men scavenge from the fort?

3. What does Sharpe do after they cross the Leyre River?

4. What will Sharpe do while Teste de Buch is being assaulted?

5. What does Killick ask Sharpe?

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