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

2. What does Palmer say about the mission on which Bampfylde sent him?
(a) He'll do it next week.
(b) It went well.
(c) It is finished.
(d) It's a fool's errand.

3. What does Sharpe decide to do after he receives news from de Maquerre?
(a) Go immediately to Bordeaux.
(b) Make camp where he is.
(c) Return to Teste de Buch.
(d) Return to the British encampment.

4. What kind of thoughts of Jane trouble Sharpe?
(a) That she's with child.
(b) That she'd dead or dying.
(c) That she'll find another man.
(d) That she'll miss him.

5. What do the Facture town authorities try to do?
(a) Leave the town.
(b) Surrender to Sharpe.
(c) Blow up the toll-bridge.
(d) Capture Sharpe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of tactic does Sharpe use on the convoy?

3. What does Calvet ask Killick to do?

4. After a section of a wall falls what does Sharpe do?

5. Of what is the British bridge over the water composed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Calvet argue and how does Ducos respond and why does he respond that way?

2. What does Bampfylde do before leaving Teste de Buch?

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

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

5. What does Sharpe and his men ambush?

6. What happens when Sharpe sees de Maquerre?

7. What does Killick do with the British prisoners?

8. Describe Pierre Ducos and describe his unusual status.

9. 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?

10. What is the local commander, Calvet like?

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