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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what does Ducos threaten Killick?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Incarceration.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Being shot as a spy.

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

3. What happens during the second assault in question #148?
(a) The French are completely repulsed.
(b) There is a standoff.
(c) Four Frenchmen die for every one Britain.
(d) Several French soldiers get into the fortress.

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

5. How do Killick and Sharpe feel about each other?
(a) They hate each other.
(b) They develop a genuine if rudimentary friendship.
(c) They respect each other but see the other as an enemy.
(d) They tolerate each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Killick set Sharpe's men ashore?

2. Why is Sharpe anger at himself?

3. In what year does this novel start?

4. What does the Commodore decide will be the British's method of attack on his fort?

5. Where does Sharpe's force land for the first part of their mission?

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