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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gudin have to leave behind when a wagon breaks down?
(a) His books.
(b) His dried flower collection.
(c) His sword collection.
(d) His musical instruments.

2. What are Sharpe and the other man trying to do?
(a) Trap a possom.
(b) Kill a French sentry.
(c) Trap a badger.
(d) Kill a bullock.

3. Who is the Peer's Chief of Intelligence?
(a) Richard Sharpe.
(b) Patrick Harper.
(c) Colonel Hogan.
(d) Colonel Gudin.

4. What is one question Bernard Cornwell is often asked about Richard Sharpe?
(a) If he ever reclaims his daughter.
(b) If he actually settled down in Normandy.
(c) If he finally emigrated to the United States.
(d) If he lived a long life.

5. What does Caillou know Gudin will do?
(a) Waste his men's lives.
(b) Agree to leave Spain without their weapons.
(c) Surrender.
(d) Keep his Eagle at any cost.

6. What does Cornwell say Sharpe is determined not to lose in Sharpe's Ransom?
(a) A woman Sharpe's meets in a previous story.
(b) His half brother.
(c) The gold he hid in a French monastery after Waterloo.
(d) The only contact he has for finding his daughter.

7. Who does Cornwell say commissioned the Sharpe stories originally?
(a) His former English professor.
(b) His mother.
(c) Daily Mail.
(d) His best friend who is an editor.

8. What is wrong with Colonel Gudin's feet?
(a) He has lost a toe in a battle.
(b) Nothing.
(c) His heels hurt.
(d) He has bunions.

9. Why won't Gudin ride his horse?
(a) His lieutenant is ill and riding the horse.
(b) The horse is lame.
(c) The horse is in an advanced stage of pregnancy.
(d) The horse is ill.

10. What does Sharpe look for when he walks north?
(a) Spanish spies.
(b) A woman who ran off with his pistol.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) Frogs.

11. To whom is the telescope inscribed through which Sharpe is looking?
(a) Napoleon.
(b) Russeau.
(c) The King of Spain.
(d) Gudin.

12. Where does Gudin go with D'Alembord?
(a) To the village.
(b) To collect the French wounded.
(c) To see General Picard.
(d) To the south front.

13. What does Cornwell say he never expected?
(a) Sharpe's daughter would grow older.
(b) Sharpe would survive the last conflict in which he participated.
(c) Sharpe would end up in France.
(d) Teresa would die.

14. Who causes Gudin's first major defeat?
(a) Sharpe.
(b) Picard.
(c) Caillou.
(d) Wellington.

15. Who commands the piquet on the south road?
(a) Captain Southby.
(b) Captain Nicholls.
(c) Captain Harper.
(d) Captain Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would cause Sharpe serious problems?

2. How long does Sharpe figure it will take the French to advance?

3. Why doesn't Picard call his men back off the slopes?

4. What attack is the French army attempting to repel?

5. At what does Caillou fume?

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