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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Sharpe and his men get across the Leyre River?
(a) Wade.
(b) Boats.
(c) Toll-bridge.
(d) They build rafts.

2. What does Sharpe do as the last longboat leaves the beach?
(a) Kills Calvet.
(b) Kills Ducos.
(c) Hangs onto it.
(d) Jumps in it.

3. What type of man is the man who meets Duco?
(a) Careful and considerate.
(b) Vicious and greedy.
(c) Amicable.
(d) Thoughtful.

4. With whom does Ducos meet?
(a) Major Doomar.
(b) General Faluken.
(c) Colonel Hauter.
(d) General Calvet.

5. What do Sharpe's men do when they reach the main British encampment?
(a) Seek medical aid.
(b) Go look for Bampfylde.
(c) Pitch their tents.
(d) Get drunk.

6. What type of tactic does Sharpe use on the convoy?
(a) Charging the calvery with bayonets.
(b) Sending half of his men behind the convoy.
(c) His men fire then lie prone behind the smoke.
(d) Shooting low to take out the enemies' legs.

7. What does the addition of another high ranking officer do to the French forces?
(a) Stops the battle for a while.
(b) Creates arguments about command.
(c) Confuses the men in the ranks.
(d) Adds more brain power.

8. What does Sharpe and his men scavenge from the fort?
(a) Food.
(b) Horses.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Powder and armaments.

9. What do Sharpe's men do as they march towards the British front lines?
(a) Take several French prisoners.
(b) Fight off French troops.
(c) Sing.
(d) Get ready to take revenge on Bampfylde.

10. What does Bampfylde keep looking for back at the beach?
(a) British ships to pick him and his men up.
(b) Lassan and his men.
(c) Thuella.
(d) A way through the mountains to Bordeaux.

11. What do the Facture town authorities try to do?
(a) Capture Sharpe.
(b) Leave the town.
(c) Blow up the toll-bridge.
(d) Surrender to Sharpe.

12. With what does Ducos threaten Killick?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Being shot as a spy.
(c) Incarceration.
(d) Nothing.

13. The man who meets Ducos fought on what front?
(a) Russian.
(b) Prussian.
(c) Spanish.
(d) African.

14. What does Sharpe do when he sees Bampfylde?
(a) Accost him and insults him.
(b) Kicks him in the kneecap.
(c) Slaps him in the face.
(d) Draws his sword on him.

15. What kind of motivation does the French commanding officers have?
(a) To win glory for the men.
(b) Everyone has a different motivation.
(c) To take back Teste de Buch.
(d) One has little motivation for the battle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Calvet decide about the best way to assault the fortress?

2. What does Killick ask Sharpe?

3. What happens to the French as they put the fascines in place?

4. What does Calvet worry about at the fortress?

5. What type of passage does the bridge afford?

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