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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What closes with Teste de Buch at a given preset hour?
(a) Bampfylde's Marines
(b) Sharpe's companies.
(c) A French man-of-war.
(d) A British frigate.

2. Who does Bampfylde credit in his official report to the Admiralty?
(a) Fredrickson.
(b) Himself.
(c) Sharpe.
(d) Captain Palmer.

3. What did Sharpe as the Americans to swear?
(a) Not to aid the French.
(b) Not to fight in any European war.
(c) To return to America.
(d) Not to engage in hostilities against Britain.

4. What do they do with Harper after he pulls his tooth?
(a) Put him in a hand cart.
(b) Make him lie down.
(c) Put him on a stretcher.
(d) Give him whiskey to drink.

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

6. Who does Sharpe visit before leaving on his mission?
(a) Major Jones.
(b) Colonel Hogan.
(c) Captain Southerby.
(d) Colonel Smithwood.

7. What does Sharpe quote to Bampfylde?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Human rights section of the British constitution.
(c) His orders.
(d) Regulations concerning the command structure.

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

9. Who is leading the British forces at the beginning of this novel?
(a) Forthoer.
(b) Harbringer.
(c) Wellington.
(d) Smith.

10. Who is in charge of the Teste de Buch?
(a) Commodore LaFayette.
(b) Commodore Henri Lassan.
(c) Commodore Pletier.
(d) Commodore Sydney LeShant.

11. Why does Sharpe decline Patrick Harper's volunteering to join the unit?
(a) He doesn't like Harper.
(b) He does not have the authority.
(c) Harper is not an infantryman.
(d) Harper has a contagious fever.

12. What does Sharpe think about Harper's story?
(a) It is funny.
(b) It is a serious breach of military regulations.
(c) It is ridiculous.
(d) It is quite a coincidence.

13. How does the man that de Maquerre meets feel about Sharpe?
(a) Respects him.
(b) Admires him.
(c) Hates him with a passion.
(d) Was friends with him in the past.

14. What type of work does Cornelius Killick do?
(a) He is the sub commander at Teste de Buch.
(b) He is a British spy.
(c) He is a privateer.
(d) He is a French marine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Commodore try to figure out what the British are going to do?

2. What does Sharpe do when the soldier opens the gate?

3. How late does Bampfylde arrive at the fortress?

4. In what condition are Bampfylde's Marines?

5. What do Sharpe's scouts find?

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