2. What do the British do when the French artillery begins?
(a) Surrender.
(b) Target the artillery soldiers.
(c) Abandons all positions outside the castle.
(d) Send rockets into their artillery.

3. How do the British use the remaining rockets?
(a) For setting off the avalanche charge.
(b) As incendiary devices.
(c) As hand-thrown bombs.
(d) They keep them for last minute defense.

4. What did the British intercept a couple of days before Christmas?
(a) A French force moving to join the one attacking Sharpe.
(b) Messages stating that Napoleon is seriously injured.
(c) French plans to attack Andrados.
(d) French plans to invade Spain.

5. Who escapes that upsets Sharpe?
(a) Josefina.
(b) Pot-au-Fea.
(c) Hakeswill.
(d) No one.

6. What do the French do after their first approach ends in disaster for them?
(a) Withdraw to the village.
(b) Begin preparations for a serious assault.
(c) Ask for a parley with Sharpe.
(d) Destroy his rocket artillery.

7. What happens to Hakeswill at the end of the novel?
(a) He is shot by firing squad.
(b) He is sent to prison.
(c) He is transported.
(d) He is hanged.

8. What do the French do shortly after Sharpe discovers Teresa's body?
(a) Withdraw to the village.
(b) Attack once again.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Come under a flag of truce.

9. What does Sharpe do when the French are fifty yards from the trench?
(a) Set fire to the trench.
(b) Counterattack with cavalry.
(c) Release an avalanche stones on them.
(d) Send the rockets through their ranks.

10. What type of casualties do the French take from their second attack on the castle?
(a) Thirty percent.
(b) Very few.
(c) Fifty percent of the French were killed.
(d) Ten percent.

11. Who is recovered by the French and handed over to the British?
(a) Hogan.
(b) No one.
(c) Hakeswill.
(d) Josefina.

12. From where does the first attack of the French fall back?
(a) At the castle main gate.
(b) In the castle courtyard.
(c) The castle walls.
(d) At the convent.

13. What happens just as the French begin their final massive attack?
(a) Sharpe surrenders.
(b) Shapre finds three cannon and repulse the French yet again.
(c) The defenders withdraw to the village.
(d) A large British force arrives.

14. What does Farthingdale wonder about the French?
(a) Why they are there.
(b) If they think he speaks good French.
(c) Why they are being friendly.
(d) If they plan to attack.

15. What does Sharpe realize about the French?
(a) They mean to take over Andrados.
(b) They mean to invade Spain.
(c) They are friendly for now.
(d) They just came for Dubreton's wife.