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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 do both Calvet and Sharpe realize about the battle?
(a) The French will lose.
(b) The British are in a better position.
(c) British reinforcements will be coming soon.
(d) It is only a matter of time.

2. Where are the British men heading who are using the bridge?
(a) Deeper into France.
(b) To Teste de Buch.
(c) To the Rhinheart mountains.
(d) Back to England.

3. With what does Calvet hit the fortress after the bombardment?
(a) Cannon.
(b) Calvery.
(c) Canisters.
(d) Sappers.

4. Who joins Sharpe near the river?
(a) A company of infantry.
(b) Killick and his men.
(c) Frederickson and his company.
(d) A company of marines.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Sharpe and his men get across the Leyre River?

2. How are advancing French elements driven off?

3. Why does Sharpe order the men not to shoot unless they know they can kill?

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

5. What kind of thoughts of Jane trouble Sharpe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who joins Sharpe and why?

2. What do both Calvet and Sharpe realize about the assaults on the fortress and how it will end.

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

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

5. What does colonel Favier ask Sharpe and what is his reply?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Killick do with the British prisoners?

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