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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can't the Marines do the mission Sharpe is assigned?
(a) The Marines are going elsewhere.
(b) The Marines are sick with fever.
(c) The Marines are back on the peninsula.
(d) There are no Marines in the area.

2. What does Sharpe quote to Bampfylde?
(a) His orders.
(b) Regulations concerning the command structure.
(c) Human rights section of the British constitution.
(d) The Bible.

3. Into what territory have the British forces pushed after conquering the peninsula in question #3?
(a) North Germany.
(b) Southern France.
(c) Holland.
(d) Eastern Spain.

4. What did Sharpe as the Americans to swear?
(a) To return to America.
(b) Not to engage in hostilities against Britain.
(c) Not to fight in any European war.
(d) Not to aid the French.

5. What does Sharpe think about Harper's story?
(a) It is ridiculous.
(b) It is funny.
(c) It is a serious breach of military regulations.
(d) It is quite a coincidence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man who meets de Maquerre do for a living?

2. Who does Bampfylde interrogate?

3. Who does the soldier at the gate think Harper is?

4. How does the man that de Maquerre meets feel about Sharpe?

5. Why is Killick worried about Thuella?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Frederickson feel about the treatment of the Americans and what does he do?

2. How is Killick's ambush neutralized?

3. What do the British decide to do to implement their plan from question # 3?

4. Who joins Sharpe's mission at the last moment, what kind of problems does he cause and why does Sharpe's superiors allow it?

5. What does Pierre Ducos do when he learns Sharpe is marching inland?

6. What does Sharpe do with the American prisoners and how does Bampfylde respond?

7. What kind of shape are Bampfylde and his Marines and how does this affect what they do?

8. What does Lassan do when he flees the fortress?

9. What is Harper's story concerning how he is with Sharpe's men?

10. What does an English frigate do about the Teste de Buch and how does Lassan respond?

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