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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Killick intervening in the battle at Teste de Buch?
(a) He hates the French.
(b) His wife is in the fort.
(c) He hates the British.
(d) He is worried for his ship.

2. 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 has a contagious fever.
(d) Harper is not an infantryman.

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

4. Of what unit does Sharpe assume command?
(a) Company of mixed calvery and infantry.
(b) Royal naval assault team.
(c) Royal Rifles Company C.
(d) Royal American Rifles.

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

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

7. How does Sharpe feel about hanging men?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Enthusiastic.
(c) Believes it's a good way to go.
(d) Has a great distaste for it.

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

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

10. Why has Wigram attached another man to Sharpe's forces?
(a) He has medical skills.
(b) To force the issue of a march on Bordeaux.
(c) To keep tabs on Sharpe.
(d) He knows the area well.

11. What does Sharpe do with the American prisoners?
(a) Releases them.
(b) Sends them to England.
(c) Shoots them.
(d) Puts them on their ship then burns the ship.

12. What does Sharpe do when he arrives near the fortress ahead of schedule?
(a) Hides in the woods.
(b) Knocks down the gate.
(c) Attacks the fortress.
(d) Watches the unequal duel.

13. Why is the Commodore in charge of Teste de Buch concerned?
(a) His wall is crumbling.
(b) His forces are undermanned.
(c) The water in the well is bad.
(d) His food supply is almost gone.

14. How does the Commodore try to figure out what the British are going to do?
(a) He doesn't he just waits for whatever happens.
(b) Sends a spy to the British lines.
(c) Gathers local information.
(d) Thinks about what he would do in their situation.

15. Who assumes command of the force that will assault Teste de Buch?
(a) Frederickson.
(b) Killick.
(c) Bampfyle.
(d) Wigram.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the British decide they need to divert the French from the bridge site?

2. How do Sharpe and Frederickson feel about each other?

3. Where does Sharpe go his last few hours before his mission?

4. In this war between Napoleon and Europe with whom are the Americans allied?

5. Where does Napoleon send fresh troops?

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