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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the wind rattles the door?
(a) Patrick starts crying.
(b) Challon is startled.
(c) Lorcet grabs Lucille from behind.
(d) The maid screams.

2. What does Lorcet order Sharpe to do?
(a) Submit to being tied.
(b) Retrieve the money by nightfall.
(c) Retrieve the gold and take it to an address in Paris.
(d) Stay under guard while Lorcet retrieves the silver.

3. Who is Corporal Lubecque?
(a) A good friend of Malan's.
(b) The man Lorcet leaves to guard Lucille.
(c) Lucille's former gardner.
(d) A man Lorcet sends with Shapre to Caen.

4. Who thought he was in love with Lucille?
(a) No one besides Sharpe.
(b) Colonel Gudin.
(c) Malan.
(d) The mayor.

5. What is the worse thing about defeat to Picard?
(a) Having to tell Napoleon about the defeat.
(b) Having to give his parole to the English.
(c) The loss of his sword.
(d) The loss of the French Eagle.

6. Who is sitting opposite Lucille when Sharpe enters the kitchen?
(a) Father Defoy.
(b) Malan.
(c) A small, bespectacled man.
(d) Patrick Harper.

7. What is Sharpe learning to love?
(a) Normandy.
(b) Lucille's son by her first husband.
(c) Lucille's daughter by her first husband.
(d) The farm where he and Lucille are living.

8. What does Sharpe feel as he is marching to Irati that evening?
(a) Extreme anger about Nicholl's death.
(b) Pleased that Picard no longer spreads his evil in the world.
(c) Sorrowful that the newborn will not know its mother.
(d) Nervous about the two French brigades advancing toward Irati.

9. Why does Lucille name Patrick with the surname Lassan?
(a) She wants Patrick to be able to inherit her family estate.
(b) She thinks the villagers will accept him better.
(c) She does not name his Lassan.
(d) She wants her family's name to continue.

10. What does Lorcet assume Sharpe wanted to do?
(a) Get the gold to the English authorities.
(b) Keep the gold a secret.
(c) Find the rightful owners of the gold.
(d) Use the gold to fix up the farm.

11. Whom does Father Defoy embarrass publicly?
(a) The widow Malan.
(b) Calvet.
(c) Sharpe.
(d) Malan.

12. Where is Sharpe in this story?
(a) Near London.
(b) Southern England.
(c) Normandy.
(d) India.

13. What has Sharpe read in the papers?
(a) The King of England is offering amnesty to deserters.
(b) Napoleon has escaped.
(c) All former English soldiers are to leave France.
(d) The French countryside has been plundered.

14. About what do Harper and Sharpe argue near the end of the story?
(a) What Sharpe's superiors will do.
(b) Who will kill the cow.
(c) Who will kill the sheep.
(d) Who will stay in Spain.

15. What does Challon put under his arm?
(a) His pistol.
(b) His clothes.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Patrick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe doubt will ever happen?

2. Who fiercely hates Sharpe in the village?

3. How does Lucille explain Sharpe's presence?

4. Where does Sharpe send two companies?

5. What is the tall man with hussar pigtails carrying?

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