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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Sharpe as the Americans to swear?
(a) Not to fight in any European war.
(b) Not to engage in hostilities against Britain.
(c) To return to America.
(d) Not to aid the French.

2. What does Lassan and his men do when the British enter the fort?
(a) Abandon it.
(b) Surrender.
(c) Kill most of them.
(d) Blow up the fort.

3. What do Sharpe's superiors do to free him to lead the invasion force?
(a) Court martial him.
(b) Demote him.
(c) Transfer all of his men to another unit.
(d) Transfer him from his command.

4. How do Sharpe and Frederickson feel about each other?
(a) They are indifferent to each other.
(b) They like each other immediately.
(c) Frederickson is distainful of Sharpe.
(d) Sharpe feels uneasy about Frederickson.

5. What does Bampfylde say he is going to do with the Americans?
(a) Send them to England.
(b) Try them under British law.
(c) Hang them.
(d) Set them free.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Comte de Maquerre do for France?

2. What do they do with Harper after he pulls his tooth?

3. Who first intervenes for the Americans?

4. Why does Bampfylde order Sharpe's rifle companies to get some rest?

5. What do Sharpe's scouts find?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Commodore Lassan at Teste de Buch uneasy?

2. What does Lassan do when he flees the fortress?

3. What does Sharpe doe when he arrives near the area of the fortress?

4. What does Bampfylde do with the American prisoners and why?

5. What surprises Sharpe when they land and why is he surprised and what does Bampfylde do?

6. What do the various officers Sharpe meets with think about what the British should do?

7. What is Richard Sharpe's role in the coming British action and why is he chosen for this task?

8. To where do the British advance in Chapter 1 and 2 and what do they decide to do next?

9. How does Killick respond to Sharpe's distaste for hanging?

10. What does Killick decide to do with the British coming?

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