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

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

3. How many casualties do the British take?
(a) Several.
(b) One-third of the men.
(c) Fifty.
(d) None.

4. What does Frederickson do after Sharpe's companies routed the French?
(a) Takes down the toll-bridge.
(b) Nothing, he's been injured.
(c) Leads an expeditionary force after them.
(d) Sets up camp.

5. For what would Sharpe use quicklime?
(a) For treating wounds.
(b) To make gunpowder.
(c) To cleanse the water supply.
(d) As a primitive chemical warfare to blind the enemy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Killick tell Sharpe?

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

4. What do both Calvet and Sharpe realize about the battle?

5. What does Palmer say about the mission on which Bampfylde sent him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who joins Sharpe and why?

3. Describe the bridge that the British built.

4. What does Killick do in obedience to the French? What is Sharpe's response?

5. What does Sharpe and his men ambush?

6. Describe Pierre Ducos and describe his unusual status.

7. What happens when the French first arrive at the fort and how does Calvet respond to it?

8. What do Sharpe and Frederickson think about their situation and what troubles Sharpe?

9. What does Killick do with the British prisoners?

10. What is the first town to which Sharpe and his men come and what is there?

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