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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Napoleon send fresh troops?
(a) To Russia.
(b) Behind the British.
(c) Near the Shuther peninsula.
(d) To the new front.

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

3. Who suggest the site to which Killick moves his ambush?
(a) Harper.
(b) Bampfylde.
(c) Lassan.
(d) Smithfield.

4. What does Colonel Elphinstone say about Sharpe due to the mission he is assigned?
(a) He is a sacrificial lamb.
(b) He will be promoted immediately.
(c) He is the best man for the job.
(d) He is lucky.

5. Who first intervenes for the Americans?
(a) Baliwick.
(b) Smithfield.
(c) Frederickson.
(d) Harper.

6. Where does Sharpe go his last few hours before his mission?
(a) To bed.
(b) The officer's club.
(c) To visit a priest.
(d) To the town tavern.

7. What does Bampfylde say he is going to do with the Americans?
(a) Hang them.
(b) Try them under British law.
(c) Set them free.
(d) Send them to England.

8. What kind of time do the rifle companies make marching?
(a) They run a a fast sprint the entire ten miles.
(b) Slow.
(c) Methodical, neither slow nor fast.
(d) Extremely good time.

9. What does Sharpe do when the soldier opens the gate?
(a) Gags him and ties him up.
(b) Kills him.
(c) Shuts the gate.
(d) Hits him over the head.

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

11. What does the Comte de Maquerre do for France?
(a) He is the prime minister.
(b) He is an admiral.
(c) He is in charge of the French forces.
(d) He is a spy.

12. Who does the soldier at the gate think Harper is?
(a) An American civilian.
(b) An American casualty.
(c) A French scout.
(d) A French spy.

13. Why does Killick surrender?
(a) He is a coward.
(b) He has been assured of fair treatment.
(c) He is out numbered.
(d) He doesn't have anything against the British.

14. Why do the British troops stop at the river?
(a) It is a natural barrier.
(b) The French are too strong on the other side of the river.
(c) To fill their water barrels.
(d) To water the horses.

15. Towards what river do the British troops advance?
(a) Rhine River.
(b) Danube River.
(c) Adour River.
(d) James River.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sharpe's superiors do to free him to lead the invasion force?

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

3. Who lands as the Marines march away?

4. Of what vital fact is Lassan and Killick unaware?

5. What does a group of the British see a few hours before Sharpe's mission?

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