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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who joins Sharpe near the river?
(a) A company of marines.
(b) A company of infantry.
(c) Frederickson and his company.
(d) Killick and his men.

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

7. Why is the attack Ducos presses technically illegal?
(a) All of Sharpe's men are wounded.
(b) Sharpe has vacated the fort.
(c) He has orders to leave.
(d) Sharpe has already surrendered.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Ducos threaten Killick?

2. How does Killick respond to Calvet's request?

3. Why is Sharpe anger at himself?

4. What does Harper manage to repair in the fort?

5. What do the Facture town authorities try to do?

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