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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what person is Hakeswill devoted?
(a) His father.
(b) His brother.
(c) His mother.
(d) His sister.

2. What happens when the convent blows up?
(a) Harper is killed.
(b) The French give up and leave.
(c) The British prepare a counterattack.
(d) All the French artillery is destroyed.

3. Who favors the type of attack the French forces leader favors?
(a) The Moors.
(b) Napoleon.
(c) The Spanish.
(d) Wellington.

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

5. How do many of Pot-au-Fea's men escape?
(a) Dodging through the village.
(b) Over the south wall.
(c) Through a tunnel.
(d) Swimming the moat.

6. What does Sharpe send Harper to collect?
(a) Unused rifles.
(b) Ammunition.
(c) Bones from the ossery.
(d) Live birds.

7. For what does Sharpe plan to use the trench in front of the castle?
(a) To stop the French cavalry.
(b) To stop the French infantry long enough to kill them with an avalanche.
(c) His rocket artillery.
(d) To fill with burning oil.

8. What does Farthingdale announce at the war council?
(a) He plans to retreat from Andrados.
(b) He wants to surrender to the French.
(c) He wants to attack the north flank of the French.
(d) He wants to negotiate a withdrawal.

9. Where are the French packed into during their last attack?
(a) The trench.
(b) In the convent.
(c) At the main gatehouse tower.
(d) The castle courtyard.

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

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

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

13. How does Pierre Ducos appear to Sharpe?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Curious.
(c) Offensive and insubordinate.
(d) Gracious.

14. What British unit finally shows up at Andradro?
(a) The cavalry.
(b) The British infantry.
(c) The rocket artillery unit.
(d) Frederickson's rifle unit.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe hope to do after the first French attack?

2. Who is spotted in the distance after the castle is secured?

3. Who surprises Sharpe with a visit?

4. What does Sharpe do with Pot-au-Fea?

5. How do the British use the remaining rockets?

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