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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 and 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Calvet worry about at the fortress?
(a) Getting a promotion.
(b) His wife.
(c) His breakfast.
(d) The military situation.

3. What type of work does Cornelius Killick do?
(a) He is the sub commander at Teste de Buch.
(b) He is a French marine.
(c) He is a British spy.
(d) He is a privateer.

4. For what would Sharpe use quicklime?
(a) To cleanse the water supply.
(b) For treating wounds.
(c) As a primitive chemical warfare to blind the enemy.
(d) To make gunpowder.

5. With whom does Ducos meet?
(a) General Calvet.
(b) Major Doomar.
(c) Colonel Hauter.
(d) General Faluken.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Killick intervening in the battle at Teste de Buch?

2. In what year does this novel start?

3. What do the Facture town authorities try to do?

4. What do Sharpe's scouts find?

5. Who joins the assaulting troops?

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