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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the French unable to use their howitzers and field guns during the storm?
(a) It's too dangerous in lightning.
(b) They can't see through the fog.
(c) The wind is too high.
(d) The gunpowder is wet.

2. What do Killick's longboats do?
(a) Sink in the storm.
(b) Continue the bombardment.
(c) Ground out near the fortress.
(d) Pick-up Sharpe's wounded.

3. Why is Sharpe anger at himself?
(a) For getting caught in the fortress.
(b) For getting married right before he left.
(c) For not foreseeing the bombardment.
(d) For not killing Bampfylde.

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

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. Who joins the assaulting troops?
(a) Lassan.
(b) Calvet.
(c) Ducaoth.
(d) Killick.

7. What continues to mount within the fortress?
(a) Enthusiasm and hope.
(b) A desire for revenge against Bampfylde.
(c) British dead and wounded.
(d) Pessimism.

8. Of what Is the convoy which comes across the ambush site consist?
(a) French artillery units.
(b) French rifle units.
(c) French infantry, supply wagons, and some calvery.
(d) French sailors heading for Teste de Buch.

9. What are fascines?
(a) A type of fire tower.
(b) Huge bundles of sticks.
(c) A French catapult.
(d) A type of cannon.

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

11. Where is the ambush site that Sharpe selects located?
(a) Near the road going to Bordeaux.
(b) On the roadway leading out of Bordeaux.
(c) Inside Bordeaux.
(d) Between Teste de Buch and the Leyre River.

12. What do the remaining rifles and Marines do while Killick's longboats shuttle men to his ship?
(a) Huddle in the fort.
(b) Attack in an offensive feint.
(c) Hide on the beach.
(d) Fight a delaying retreat.

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

14. With what does Calvet hit the fortress after the bombardment?
(a) Canisters.
(b) Cannon.
(c) Calvery.
(d) Sappers.

15. What does Harper manage to repair in the fort?
(a) The landward wall.
(b) The landward gate.
(c) The long range artillery.
(d) One cannon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the sortie led by Frederickson accomplish?

2. Where does Killick set Sharpe's men ashore?

3. Why does Lucille follow Sharpe's force?

4. What type of supplies did Sharpe's men carry when marching overland?

5. What does Colonel Favier parlay with Sharpe about?

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