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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What happens during the second assault in question #148?
(a) The French are completely repulsed.
(b) Several French soldiers get into the fortress.
(c) There is a standoff.
(d) Four Frenchmen die for every one Britain.

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

8. What type of supplies did Sharpe's men carry when marching overland?
(a) They had a mule train with a large amount of supplies.
(b) They had light and portable supplies.
(c) They carried only their packs without any supplies.
(d) They carried enough supplies to last two months.

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

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

11. What does Harper do to Robinson?
(a) Takes him prisoner.
(b) Shoots him.
(c) Beats him.
(d) Hangs him.

12. Where does Killick set Sharpe's men ashore?
(a) Across the river.
(b) Near Bordeaux.
(c) Near Facture.
(d) Several miles down on the British side.

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

14. With what specific does Calvet begin to bombard the fortress?
(a) Howitzers.
(b) Catapults.
(c) Cannons.
(d) Artillery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of thoughts of Jane trouble Sharpe?

2. In what type of formation do the French assault the Teste de Buch the first time after bombardment and shelling?

3. Why has Killick agreed to a staged surrender?

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

5. For what would Sharpe use quicklime?

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