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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 Calvet.
(b) Major Doomar.
(c) General Faluken.
(d) Colonel Hauter.

2. How do Killick and Sharpe feel about each other?
(a) They develop a genuine if rudimentary friendship.
(b) They respect each other but see the other as an enemy.
(c) They tolerate each other.
(d) They hate each other.

3. What does the sortie led by Frederickson accomplish?
(a) Not much.
(b) Takes dozens of French lives.
(c) Acquires some more gunpowder.
(d) Breaks the siege.

4. What does Calvet want to do?
(a) Parlay a truce.
(b) Leave a pining force and head south.
(c) Blow up the entire fort.
(d) Pull back and let the British starve.

5. What do the remaining rifles and Marines do while Killick's longboats shuttle men to his ship?
(a) Fight a delaying retreat.
(b) Huddle in the fort.
(c) Attack in an offensive feint.
(d) Hide on the beach.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sharpe do when he sees Bampfylde?

3. What kind of motivation does the French commanding officers have?

4. How long after Bampfylde leaves the fortress does Sharpe arrive?

5. What is the weather like when the French forces meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the local commander, Calvet like?

2. What occurs during the exchange between Calvet and Killick?

3. Describe General Calvet and what type of military leader is he?

4. Who joins Sharpe and why?

5. What does Sharpe and his men ambush?

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

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

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

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

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

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