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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Lucille Castineau?
(a) A new character created for "Sharpe's Christmas."
(b) A new character created in "Sharpe's Memories."
(c) A woman Sharpe accidentally killed in "Sharpe's Revenge."
(d) A woman Sharpe meets in "Sharpe's Revenge."

2. What does D'Alembord ask Sharpe about India?
(a) If he ever rode an elephant in India.
(b) If he would be willing to go back to India.
(c) If he met any pretty women in India.
(d) If he liked India.

3. Why doesn't Picard call his men back off the slopes?
(a) He is incompetent.
(b) He is too sure of victory.
(c) He is not one to heed a warning.
(d) He cannot hear the bugler.

4. What does D'Alembord think of Sharpe?
(a) Sharpe is a womanizer.
(b) Sharpe should not be an officer.
(c) Sharpe is the best soldier D'Alembord has ever known.
(d) Sharpe has more integrity than many of the gentlemen officers.

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

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

7. What does Sharpe command?
(a) A squad of specialized sharpshooters.
(b) No one at the moment.
(c) A battalion of redcoats.
(d) A company of reservists.

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

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

10. Whose garrison must Picard rescue?
(a) Sharpe's.
(b) No one's.
(c) Gudin's.
(d) Nicholl's.

11. Of what is Colonel Gudin's career full?
(a) Strife.
(b) Honors.
(c) Failures.
(d) Battles.

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

13. What does Sharpe send D'Alembord to do in the south?
(a) To ask for the surrender of the French garrison.
(b) To tell Smith to bring his soldiers to the North.
(c) To assess the situation in the South.
(d) To order Smith to attack the French garrison.

14. About what do the two men argue?
(a) Who is the better shot.
(b) Who will perform the task.
(c) Whether the French are coming soon.
(d) Who is the sicker man.

15. At what does the French brigade fire?
(a) The archers.
(b) The calvary.
(c) The remaining barrels.
(d) The partisans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe order from Irati for his men?

2. What does CeCe Mot do?

3. Where does Picard send the voltiguers?

4. Why does Sharpe have his men stationed fifty paces back from the frontier?

5. What war in 1799 is the context of "Sharpe's Christmas"?

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