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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 closes with Teste de Buch at a given preset hour?
(a) A British frigate.
(b) Sharpe's companies.
(c) Bampfylde's Marines
(d) A French man-of-war.

2. Of what vital fact is Lassan and Killick unaware?
(a) They do not know about Sharpe's force.
(b) They do not know the marines aren't ill.
(c) They do not know the British ship will also attack by water.
(d) They do not know their spy is with the British.

3. Where does the commodore of the fort send his men?
(a) Into the hills.
(b) To the landward wall.
(c) To the harbor.
(d) To the seaward wall.

4. What is Sharpe ordered to do?
(a) Slip behind the French line and poison their water source.
(b) Take out a French man-of-war.
(c) Capture a fortress that is said to be ill-guarded.
(d) Assassinate the French general.

5. What does the man who meets de Maquerre do for a living?
(a) He is a French infantry captain.
(b) He is a French Marine.
(c) He is a French count.
(d) He is a French intelligence agent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the British decide they need to divert the French from the bridge site?

2. What does Killick decide to do against the British land force?

3. What did Sharpe as the Americans to swear?

4. In what year does this novel start?

5. Why does Sharpe ask Harper to pull his infected tooth?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Harper's story concerning how he is with Sharpe's men?

3. How does Sharpe counter Bampfylde's assertion of command and what does Bampfylde decide to do?

4. What does Sharpe do with the American prisoners and how does Bampfylde respond?

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

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

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

8. What does Killick think the British will do, how much experience does he have with fighting on land and what worries him the most?

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

10. What does Harper ask Sharpe, how does Sharpe respond and what does Harper say to that response?

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