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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 does Sharpe do to all the supply wagons?
(a) Sets them on fire.
(b) Blows them up.
(c) Drives them into the river.
(d) Takes them with him.

2. What do Sharpe and Frederickson think about their situation at Teste de Buch?
(a) It is hopeless.
(b) They could try to kill Calvet and split the force.
(c) They can win.
(d) They can escape via the water.

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

4. What does Killick ask Sharpe?
(a) If his men can fight too.
(b) If he can right his ship.
(c) That he be released from his oath.
(d) If he can leave.

5. What is the first town which Sharpe's men encounter?
(a) Poitier.
(b) Facture.
(c) Killinbrock.
(d) Therebey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bampfylde keep looking for back at the beach?

2. Why is Ducos in charge of the attack on Teste de Buch?

3. How do Killick and Sharpe feel about each other?

4. What does the sortie led by Frederickson accomplish?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is going on that favors the British and why does it favor them?

2. What do the French do on their first assault on the fortress?

3. What do Sharpe and his men do to prepare for the French forces marching on them at the fortress? What information does Killick give them?

4. Describe the bridge that the British built.

5. What does Calvet do with his artillery?

6. What happens with Ducos' plan and how does Sharpe feel about de Maquerre's information?

7. What happens in the second French assault on the fortress?

8. What type of crime was committed in the town and what happens to the perpetrator?

9. What happens when Sharpe sees de Maquerre?

10. What does Sharpe and his men ambush?

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