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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After a section of a wall falls what does Sharpe do?
(a) Surrenders the fort.
(b) Slips out of the fort during the night.
(c) Sends his men into the forest.
(d) Requests a parlay.

2. How are advancing French elements driven off?
(a) Stone catapults from the fortress.
(b) Cannon.
(c) Accurate rifle fire.
(d) Boiling oil.

3. What does Killick do with Thuella?
(a) Runs before the storm.
(b) Stays in the bay.
(c) Begins a bombardment.
(d) Nothing.

4. What does Sharpe surmise from the condition of the fortress?
(a) He would have to hide in the woods.
(b) Bampfylde was an idiot.
(c) He would have to find Killick for a ride out.
(d) They have been abandoned.

5. What does a Marine named Robinson do?
(a) Sexually assaults a local girl.
(b) Get in a fight with Sharpe.
(c) Kill the town mayor.
(d) Desert his post.

6. What does Calvet want to do?
(a) Leave a pining force and head south.
(b) Blow up the entire fort.
(c) Pull back and let the British starve.
(d) Parlay a truce.

7. What does Sharpe order be done with the British flag over the fortress?
(a) That it is burned.
(b) That it is taken down.
(c) That it is set at half mast.
(d) That it is replaced with the French flag.

8. What happens to the French as they put the fascines in place?
(a) They were too far away for the British to do anything.
(b) The fascines were set afire.
(c) They were repulsed.
(d) Calvet was killed.

9. Why does Sharpe surrender?
(a) He has no more supplies.
(b) He has few men left.
(c) He has made an agreement with Killick.
(d) He is badly wounded

10. For what would Sharpe use quicklime?
(a) To cleanse the water supply.
(b) To make gunpowder.
(c) For treating wounds.
(d) As a primitive chemical warfare to blind the enemy.

11. What do the French do besides bombard and shell the fortress?
(a) Poison the water supply.
(b) Shoot fire arrows.
(c) Make several feints.
(d) Dig tunnels.

12. What does Killick tell Sharpe about his tale concerning sailors and hanging?
(a) He had heard it from an admiral.
(b) It was fabricated.
(c) He didn't know if it was true.
(d) It is true.

13. What does Calvet worry about at the fortress?
(a) His breakfast.
(b) Getting a promotion.
(c) The military situation.
(d) His wife.

14. What type of passage does the bridge afford?
(a) Serviceable.
(b) Stout and strong.
(c) It's a permanent bridge.
(d) Very unstable.

15. What kind of thoughts of Jane trouble Sharpe?
(a) That she'll find another man.
(b) That she'd dead or dying.
(c) That she's with child.
(d) That she'll miss him.

Short Answer Questions

1. The man who meets Ducos fought on what front?

2. How many casualties do the British take?

3. What does Sharpe do after they cross the Leyre River?

4. What does de Maquerre do when he sees Sharpe?

5. What does Sharpe do as the last longboat leaves the beach?

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