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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bampfylde's Marines do when they arrive at the fortress?
(a) Sets it on fire.
(b) Occupies it.
(c) Nothing they don't enter the fortress.
(d) Tears it down.

2. What do the British decide they need to divert the French from the bridge site?
(a) Damming the river and flooding the plain.
(b) Mortar fire behind them.
(c) A diversionary action.
(d) Lighting a forest fire.

3. What does the man who meets de Maquerre do for a living?
(a) He is a French Marine.
(b) He is a French count.
(c) He is a French intelligence agent.
(d) He is a French infantry captain.

4. How experienced are the men in Sharpe's new command?
(a) Are disorganized.
(b) New recruits.
(c) Highly-skilled combat veterans.
(d) They are average infantrymen.

5. Of what vital fact is Lassan and Killick unaware?
(a) They do not know the British ship will also attack by water.
(b) They do not know the marines aren't ill.
(c) They do not know their spy is with the British.
(d) They do not know about Sharpe's force.

6. What does Killick decide to do against the British land force?
(a) Run.
(b) Prepare an ambush.
(c) Burn the forest so they can't hide.
(d) Surrender.

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

8. What is Sharpe ordered to do?
(a) Assassinate the French general.
(b) Take out a French man-of-war.
(c) Slip behind the French line and poison their water source.
(d) Capture a fortress that is said to be ill-guarded.

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

10. Into what territory have the British forces pushed after conquering the peninsula in question #3?
(a) North Germany.
(b) Southern France.
(c) Eastern Spain.
(d) Holland.

11. What do Sharpe's scouts find?
(a) Killick's ambush.
(b) A company of French infantry advancing on the fortress.
(c) A French man-of-war hiding in the harbor.
(d) Two companies of French artillery.

12. 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.

13. Where does the commodore of the fort send his men?
(a) To the seaward wall.
(b) Into the hills.
(c) To the landward wall.
(d) To the harbor.

14. With whom does de Maquerre meet up?
(a) Captain Bourgeie.
(b) Major Pierre Ducos.
(c) Major Stephene Rolleuax.
(d) Captain Thomas Caleynie.

15. 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 lucky.
(d) He is the best man for the job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sharpe decline Patrick Harper's volunteering to join the unit?

2. What does Killick present to Bampfylde?

3. Why is Harper among Sharpe's company?

4. What does Sharpe quote to Bampfylde?

5. What does British intelligence do to the Comte de Maquerre?

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