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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 surprises Sharpe when they arrive at their mission site?
(a) The few number of French on the walls of Teste de Buch.
(b) How run down the fort looks.
(c) How hot the weather is for December.
(d) The number o Marines that are there.

2. How do Sharpe and Frederickson feel about each other?
(a) They like each other immediately.
(b) Frederickson is distainful of Sharpe.
(c) Sharpe feels uneasy about Frederickson.
(d) They are indifferent to each other.

3. For what would Sharpe use quicklime?
(a) For treating wounds.
(b) To cleanse the water supply.
(c) To make gunpowder.
(d) As a primitive chemical warfare to blind the enemy.

4. What does Lassan and his men do when the British enter the fort?
(a) Blow up the fort.
(b) Kill most of them.
(c) Surrender.
(d) Abandon it.

5. What would happen if Bampfylde left Teste de Buch?
(a) Sharpe would be on his own.
(b) He would march on Bordeaux.
(c) The French would occupy it again.
(d) The French would use it against the English.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Killick tell Sharpe about his tale concerning sailors and hanging?

2. In what year does this novel start?

3. What does Sharpe quote to Bampfylde?

4. Why is Killick worried about Thuella?

5. What did Sharpe as the Americans to swear?

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