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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. The man who meets Ducos fought on what front?
(a) Prussian.
(b) Russian.
(c) Spanish.
(d) African.

2. What does Colonel Favier parlay with Sharpe about?
(a) Allowing the wounded medical care.
(b) Surrender.
(c) Leaving the fortress.
(d) Food and water.

3. What does Sharpe do after they cross the Leyre River?
(a) Have dinner.
(b) Find a suitable ambush site.
(c) Turn north and continue the march.
(d) Begin to march along the river.

4. What is Bampfylde doing when Sharpe sees him?
(a) Having dinner.
(b) Pitching a tent.
(c) Drinking wine.
(d) Conversing gaily with young women.

5. Why is Sharpe anger at himself?
(a) For not killing Bampfylde.
(b) For getting married right before he left.
(c) For getting caught in the fortress.
(d) For not foreseeing the bombardment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harper do to Robinson?

2. What does Sharpe and his men scavenge from the fort?

3. What does Sharpe do to all the supply wagons?

4. What do the French do besides bombard and shell the fortress?

5. Why is the attack Ducos presses technically illegal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of tactic has Sharpe used to get his men out of the fort? Describe how it worked.

2. What does Bampfylde do about Killick's ship and how does that turn out?

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

4. What happens when Sharpe sees de Maquerre?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Killick do with the British prisoners?

10. 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?

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