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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe do after they cross the Leyre River?
(a) Have dinner.
(b) Find a suitable ambush site.
(c) Begin to march along the river.
(d) Turn north and continue the march.

2. What is bothering Sharpe as he marches?
(a) The wear on his men.
(b) His wound.
(c) The weather.
(d) His orders.

3. What does Killick tell Sharpe?
(a) The leader of the French is homicidal.
(b) He is leaving before the French attack.
(c) His boat can take twenty men.
(d) There is a large supply of quicklime nearby.

4. What is the first town which Sharpe's men encounter?
(a) Therebey.
(b) Poitier.
(c) Killinbrock.
(d) Facture.

5. What does the addition of another high ranking officer do to the French forces?
(a) Adds more brain power.
(b) Confuses the men in the ranks.
(c) Creates arguments about command.
(d) Stops the battle for a while.

6. What does Bampfylde do that nearly wrecks the fortress?
(a) Opens the sea gates and floods it.
(b) Causes the main magazines to be detonated.
(c) Sets fire to it.
(d) Nothing.

7. What does Harper manage to repair in the fort?
(a) The landward wall.
(b) The landward gate.
(c) The long range artillery.
(d) One cannon.

8. What type of man is the man who meets Duco?
(a) Vicious and greedy.
(b) Careful and considerate.
(c) Amicable.
(d) Thoughtful.

9. What is Bampfylde doing when Sharpe sees him?
(a) Drinking wine.
(b) Pitching a tent.
(c) Conversing gaily with young women.
(d) Having dinner.

10. How long after Bampfylde leaves the fortress does Sharpe arrive?
(a) One day.
(b) Several hours.
(c) Two days.
(d) Fourteen hours.

11. What does Harper do to Robinson?
(a) Beats him.
(b) Takes him prisoner.
(c) Hangs him.
(d) Shoots him.

12. Why is Ducos in charge of the attack on Teste de Buch?
(a) He knows the fort better.
(b) He was there first.
(c) He has the most political power.
(d) He outranks everyone else.

13. What happens to the French as they put the fascines in place?
(a) They were repulsed.
(b) They were too far away for the British to do anything.
(c) Calvet was killed.
(d) The fascines were set afire.

14. What does Sharpe do when he sees Bampfylde?
(a) Draws his sword on him.
(b) Slaps him in the face.
(c) Accost him and insults him.
(d) Kicks him in the kneecap.

15. Why is the attack Ducos presses technically illegal?
(a) He has orders to leave.
(b) Sharpe has vacated the fort.
(c) All of Sharpe's men are wounded.
(d) Sharpe has already surrendered.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what would Sharpe use quicklime?

2. What does the sortie led by Frederickson accomplish?

3. What does Sharpe order be done with the British flag over the fortress?

4. After a section of a wall falls what does Sharpe do?

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

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