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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. Why does Sharpe ask Harper to pull his infected tooth?
(a) He didn't ask him to do that.
(b) So he can go to the medical tent.
(c) In a plan to gain access to the fortress.
(d) So he won't get sick.

2. Why is Killick intervening in the battle at Teste de Buch?
(a) His wife is in the fort.
(b) He hates the British.
(c) He hates the French.
(d) He is worried for his ship.

3. What surprises Sharpe when they arrive at their mission site?
(a) How run down the fort looks.
(b) The few number of French on the walls of Teste de Buch.
(c) How hot the weather is for December.
(d) The number o Marines that are there.

4. What did Killick do in Chapter One?
(a) Infiltrate the British.
(b) The raid on the British ships.
(c) Infiltrate the French line.
(d) Get married.

5. Where does Lassan take his men?
(a) To Gujan.
(b) To LeGullete.
(c) To a ship.
(d) No where, they surrendered.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Commodore try to figure out what the British are going to do?

2. Of what unit does Sharpe assume command?

3. What closes with Teste de Buch at a given preset hour?

4. Why isn't Richard Sharpe's rank confirmed?

5. Who assumes command of the force that will assault Teste de Buch?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does an English frigate do about the Teste de Buch and how does Lassan respond?

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

3. What plan does Sharpe use to get into the fortress?

4. What does Pierre Ducos do when he learns Sharpe is marching inland?

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

6. Where does Killick move his cannon, how does he feel about his intervention and why is he doing it?

7. What kind of shape are Bampfylde and his Marines and how does this affect what they do?

8. What is Sharpe's mission and what does Elphinstone think about it?

9. In what state are Napoleon's forces at the beginning of this book?

10. How does Sharpe prepare first for his mission? How does that turn out?

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