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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. With what does Ducos threaten Killick?
(a) Incarceration.
(b) Being shot as a spy.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Hanging.

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

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

4. What does Palmer say about the mission on which Bampfylde sent him?
(a) It is finished.
(b) It's a fool's errand.
(c) He'll do it next week.
(d) It went well.

5. Why is Sharpe anger at himself?
(a) For getting caught in the fortress.
(b) For getting married right before he left.
(c) For not foreseeing the bombardment.
(d) For not killing Bampfylde.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many casualties do the British take?

2. What does Sharpe do when he sees Bampfylde?

3. Where is the ambush site that Sharpe selects located?

4. What does Calvet want to do?

5. What type of man is the man who meets Duco?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Sharpe sees de Maquerre?

2. What does Bampfylde do about Killick's ship and how does that turn out?

3. What do Sharpe and his men do to prepare for the French forces marching on them at the fortress? What information does Killick give them?

4. What does Bampfylde do before leaving Teste de Buch?

5. What does Calvet do with his artillery?

6. What does colonel Favier ask Sharpe and what is his reply?

7. Who joins Sharpe and why?

8. What is the local commander, Calvet like?

9. What is the first town to which Sharpe and his men come and what is there?

10. What do Sharpe and Frederickson think about their situation and what troubles Sharpe?

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