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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 does Harper travel to London?
(a) To kill Jane.
(b) To meet with d'Alembord and see Jane.
(c) To see his wife.
(d) To get money for Sharpe.

2. What does d'Alembord notice about how Jane feels about Sharpe?
(a) She is unconcerned about him.
(b) She is missing him too much.
(c) She hates him.
(d) She is angry at him.

3. What is ironic about Lucille turning down Frederickson's proposal?
(a) She had flirted with him the first month he had been at her house.
(b) He had harped on matrimony as being futile.
(c) She had liked him so much when they had first met.
(d) She had hated Sharpe when she had first met him.

4. What almost happens to Harper when he goes by Jane's house?
(a) Rossendale almost shoots him.
(b) Jane slaps him.
(c) He is nearly trampled under by Rossendale's horses.
(d) Jane almost shoots him.

5. Why is Lucille's gun so effective?
(a) She shoots Sharpe at the site of an old wound.
(b) It is loaded with multiple projectiles.
(c) She shoots at her target point blank.
(d) It is her brother's large pistol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of cannon does Ducos purchase for his location?

2. What does the Cardinal plan to do about Calvet?

3. What does d'Alembord urge Jane to do?

4. What does Sharpe learn as he is recovering?

5. What kind of repercussions follow Sharpe taking Ducos out of Naples?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does d'Alembord do in London as far as Jane is concerned in Chapter 10? How does Jane appear to him?

2. What does d'Alembord urge Jane to do, what is her response and how does he feel about that response?

3. What does Frederickson do when he leaves the Lassan estate, what does Sharpe do after he leaves? What happens between Sharpe and Lucille?

4. How do Calvet and Sharpe plan to avoid the Cardinal's men?

5. Where does Frederickson go to find Ducos and how does that work out?

6. How does Sharpe solve the dilemma of the Cardinal's men around them?

7. What is apparent when Jane sees Rossendale and how does their social circle feel about it?

8. What does Frederickson do about Lucille and her opinion of Sharpe? What do he and Harper do while Sharpe is recovering and how does Sharpe feel about where he is? What does Lucille think of Sharpe?

9. How does Sharpe feel about his affair with Lucille in view of his marriage to Jane?

10. What happens to Ducos in the Epilogue?

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