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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. What kind of motivation does the French commanding officers have?
(a) To win glory for the men.
(b) One has little motivation for the battle.
(c) To take back Teste de Buch.
(d) Everyone has a different motivation.

2. Where is the ambush site that Sharpe selects located?
(a) On the roadway leading out of Bordeaux.
(b) Near the road going to Bordeaux.
(c) Between Teste de Buch and the Leyre River.
(d) Inside Bordeaux.

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

4. The man who meets Ducos fought on what front?
(a) Prussian.
(b) Russian.
(c) Spanish.
(d) African.

5. What does Killick do with Thuella?
(a) Begins a bombardment.
(b) Stays in the bay.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Runs before the storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sharpe's men do as they march towards the British front lines?

2. What does the sortie led by Frederickson accomplish?

3. What does Sharpe do as the last longboat leaves the beach?

4. What continues to mount within the fortress?

5. Why is Sharpe anger at himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in the second French assault on the fortress?

2. What happens with Ducos' plan and how does Sharpe feel about de Maquerre's information?

3. What do the French do on their first assault on the fortress?

4. What does Killick do with the British prisoners?

5. Who joins Sharpe and why?

6. What does Sharpe and his men ambush?

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

8. What do both Calvet and Sharpe realize about the assaults on the fortress and how it will end.

9. 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?

10. What is the local commander, Calvet like?

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