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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe arrange for on the day after Christmas?
(a) Sending the rocket arillery back to the base.
(b) A parley with the French.
(c) Dinner for the enlisted soldiers.
(d) A fake withdrawal.

2. What do the French do after their second attack?
(a) Call for a truce to recover wounded.
(b) Smash at the castle walls with their artillery.
(c) Surrender.
(d) Withdraw to the village.

3. What does Pot-au-Fea so when Sharpe reaches the castle?
(a) Run away to the hills.
(b) Shoot Harper.
(c) Commit his main force.
(d) Go to the village.

4. What does Sharpe do with the newly arrived unit?
(a) Keep them outside the south gate.
(b) Conceal them in the convent.
(c) Put them in the castle central yard.
(d) Send them to the village.

5. On the day after Christmas how do the convent and the castle appear to the French?
(a) Fortified.
(b) Full.
(c) Deserted.
(d) On fire.

6. Where is the majority of Sharpe's forces concentrated?
(a) In the town.
(b) They are evenly distributed.
(c) In the castle.
(d) In the convent.

7. How would an artillery unit get to the castle?
(a) They would be unable to negotiate the steep road.
(b) Men pushing the cannons.
(c) On horse drawn wagons.
(d) Drawn by mules.

8. Where is Harper when the French take over the convent?
(a) In the castle with Sharpe.
(b) In the back lines of the French.
(c) In the convent's ossuary.
(d) In the village.

9. What is Hakeswill doing during the battles?
(a) He is not there he has already escaped.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Planning his escape.
(d) Trying to get Sharpe to let him fight.

10. What does Dubreton do when he comes up to Sharpe?
(a) Shakes his hand.
(b) Laughs at him.
(c) Slaps him on the back.
(d) Salutes him.

11. What do the French think about Sharpe's forces?
(a) He doesn't have enough rifle units to matter.
(b) He has about 2000 men.
(c) He has no artillery.
(d) He has mostly cavalry.

12. Who is spotted in the distance after the castle is secured?
(a) French dragoons.
(b) French lancers.
(c) British cavalry.
(d) French infantry.

13. What does Sharpe give to Dubreton?
(a) All the prisoners.
(b) A cup of tea.
(c) His gold that Pot-au-Fea took.
(d) His wife.

14. From what country is Harper?
(a) Ireland.
(b) England.
(c) Wales.
(d) America.

15. What is bandaged on Farthingdale when he comes outside?
(a) His shoulder.
(b) His head.
(c) His leg.
(d) His arm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the French do when they capture the convent?

2. How do the British use the remaining rockets?

3. What does Farthingdale announce at the war council?

4. What does Sharpe know about the French and his position?

5. What does Farthingdale feel about the French's intentions?

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