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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do both Calvet and Sharpe realize about the battle?
(a) British reinforcements will be coming soon.
(b) The French will lose.
(c) The British are in a better position.
(d) It is only a matter of time.

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

3. On what does Calvet concentrate his fire?
(a) The gate.
(b) The center of the fortress.
(c) The parapets.
(d) The command tower.

4. What does the sortie led by Frederickson accomplish?
(a) Takes dozens of French lives.
(b) Breaks the siege.
(c) Not much.
(d) Acquires some more gunpowder.

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

6. How do Killick and Sharpe feel about each other?
(a) They respect each other but see the other as an enemy.
(b) They hate each other.
(c) They develop a genuine if rudimentary friendship.
(d) They tolerate each other.

7. What do Sharpe and Frederickson think about their situation at Teste de Buch?
(a) They can win.
(b) It is hopeless.
(c) They could try to kill Calvet and split the force.
(d) They can escape via the water.

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

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

10. What does Calvet ask Killick to do?
(a) Get his men out of the area.
(b) Provide a naval bombardment.
(c) Attack one side of the fortress.
(d) Go in an parley with Sharpe.

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

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

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

14. Why has Killick agreed to a staged surrender?
(a) Sharpe released him from his oath.
(b) He likes Sharpe.
(c) He hates Calvet.
(d) He is mad at the French.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harper do to Robinson?

2. What do the French do besides bombard and shell the fortress?

3. What does Bampfylde do that nearly wrecks the fortress?

4. Of what Is the convoy which comes across the ambush site consist?

5. What does Killick tell Sharpe?

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