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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Sharpe figure it will take the French to advance?
(a) They are in retreat.
(b) A few hours.
(c) A day.
(d) An hour.

2. What do two of the volumes of Gudin's diaries concern?
(a) His deceased sons.
(b) His deceased wife.
(c) The only successful campaign he has carried out.
(d) Gudin's time in India.

3. Who granted Gudin his eagle?
(a) Napoleon.
(b) It is a griffon, not an eagle.
(c) No one.
(d) He found it.

4. What are the French desperate to escape?
(a) The huge British army on their flank.
(b) The Dutch.
(c) The Russians on their flank.
(d) Spain.

5. What does Picard say Gudin has become used to?
(a) The good life.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Defeat.
(d) Being rescued.

6. What happens when some Frenchmen kick over a barrel?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The wine leaks out.
(c) The barrel's staves break and the wine spills.
(d) It explodes.

7. At what does Caillou fume?
(a) The wine was lost.
(b) Gudin's delay.
(c) It is Christmas, and they are not home in France.
(d) Gudin calls a halt early in the day.

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

9. What has Sharpe found south of the village?
(a) A place where his battalion can stop the escaping French.
(b) A young child wandering around.
(c) A pile of French muskets.
(d) A young goat.

10. With whose forces is Sharpe fighting in "Sharpe's Christmas"?
(a) Italian.
(b) Dutch.
(c) British.
(d) French.

11. What does Ensign Nicholls tell Sharpe?
(a) General Picard is offering to surrender.
(b) The other French are arriving.
(c) The French are running away.
(d) The French have regrouped near Irita.

12. For what does Gudin pray?
(a) Honorable death.
(b) A small victory.
(c) His wife and children.
(d) A way out of the military without deserting or being shot.

13. To what does Caillou object?
(a) Sharpe going undercover.
(b) Gudin leaving the Eagle.
(c) Gudin commanding the forces.
(d) Women and children coming along with the French army.

14. Who shoots Nicholls?
(a) Caillou.
(b) Gudin.
(c) No one.
(d) A British officer by mistake.

15. Why is Picard pleased that his men are miserable?
(a) He likes to share his own misery.
(b) He thinks they need to be toughened up.
(c) He thinks they fight better that way.
(d) He will look good when he solves their problem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sharpe think it cruel to fire at the unprotected French soldiers?

2. Why is Caillou furious?

3. Where is a French garrison located?

4. Of what is Colonel Gudin's career full?

5. What delays Gudin?

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