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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will Sharpe do while Teste de Buch is being assaulted?
(a) Stay out of sight as a back-up force.
(b) Return to the British lines, he was just a trick for spies.
(c) Proceed to Bordeaux.
(d) Stay on the ship and move towards Paris.

2. What does Bampfylde's Marines do when they arrive at the fortress?
(a) Occupies it.
(b) Sets it on fire.
(c) Tears it down.
(d) Nothing they don't enter the fortress.

3. Who joins Sharpe's unit at the last moment?
(a) Comte de Maquerre.
(b) Bloomsfield.
(c) Harper.
(d) Hogan.

4. Who lands as the Marines march away?
(a) The infantry under Duley.
(b) No one.
(c) Winger's calvery.
(d) Sharpe's companies.

5. Of what unit does Sharpe assume command?
(a) Company of mixed calvery and infantry.
(b) Royal naval assault team.
(c) Royal Rifles Company C.
(d) Royal American Rifles.

6. What does Killick present to Bampfylde?
(a) The strong box from the fort.
(b) The title to his ship.
(c) Two hundred pounds.
(d) A letter of marque and citizenship papers.

7. Who does the soldier at the gate think Harper is?
(a) An American casualty.
(b) A French spy.
(c) An American civilian.
(d) A French scout.

8. Why does Sharpe ask Harper to pull his infected tooth?
(a) In a plan to gain access to the fortress.
(b) He didn't ask him to do that.
(c) So he can go to the medical tent.
(d) So he won't get sick.

9. What does Sharpe do with the American prisoners?
(a) Shoots them.
(b) Puts them on their ship then burns the ship.
(c) Sends them to England.
(d) Releases them.

10. In what condition are Bampfylde's Marines?
(a) Out of shape.
(b) Fit but slow.
(c) Most of them are too ill to walk fast.
(d) Strong.

11. Who does Sharpe visit before leaving on his mission?
(a) Colonel Hogan.
(b) Major Jones.
(c) Captain Southerby.
(d) Colonel Smithwood.

12. Who assumes command of the force that will assault Teste de Buch?
(a) Wigram.
(b) Killick.
(c) Bampfyle.
(d) Frederickson.

13. Who suggest the site to which Killick moves his ambush?
(a) Harper.
(b) Lassan.
(c) Smithfield.
(d) Bampfylde.

14. How do Sharpe and Frederickson feel about each other?
(a) They are indifferent to each other.
(b) They like each other immediately.
(c) Sharpe feels uneasy about Frederickson.
(d) Frederickson is distainful of Sharpe.

15. Why is Killick intervening in the battle at Teste de Buch?
(a) His wife is in the fort.
(b) He hates the British.
(c) He is worried for his ship.
(d) He hates the French.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a group of the British see a few hours before Sharpe's mission?

2. Why does Sharpe do as he is told?

3. How does Sharpe feel about hanging men?

4. Why can't the Marines do the mission Sharpe is assigned?

5. What does the Commodore decide will be the British's method of attack on his fort?

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