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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ducos say Sharpe would know?
(a) The location of the silver.
(b) The location of his daughter.
(c) The location of the gold.
(d) The location of his son.

2. Who drags Lorcet to the tower?
(a) Sharpe.
(b) Father Defoy.
(c) The crowd.
(d) Challon.

3. About what does Lucille make fun of Lorcet?
(a) He cannot control Challon.
(b) He is relying upon a known criminal for aide.
(c) He only sent three men to accompany Sharpe.
(d) He has to hire thugs to do his business.

4. How does Lucille get Challon to apologize?
(a) She holds a kitchen knife to his throat.
(b) She holds a hot pan of grease over his groin.
(c) She says she will throw the breakfast out to the pigs.
(d) She appeals to Lorcet.

5. What does Father Defoy wish Jacques would do?
(a) Re-enlist.
(b) Buy a farm and settle down.
(c) Forgive the English.
(d) Something beneficial for the village.

6. What does Sharpe feed occasionally?
(a) The wild dogs in the woods.
(b) Wild turkeys to fatten them up.
(c) Young orphans in the village.
(d) Former soldiers that come through the area.

7. Lucille says Sharpe's business is ______________.
(a) Protecting her.
(b) Learning to be a civilian.
(c) Paying back her father's kindness.
(d) Tending the farm.

8. About what does Challon harass Lucille?
(a) Living on the farm.
(b) Being with an Englishman.
(c) Having a child out of wedlock.
(d) Not marrying a wealthy man.

9. What does Sharpe haul up from the cellar?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Challon.
(c) Botles of wine.
(d) Dried vegetables.

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

11. What does Sharpe say when he pulls the hatch in the attic?
(a) He tells Malan to signal the singers.
(b) It's time to go to war.
(c) He tells Malan to wait there.
(d) He says he's going to kill some men.

12. What promise does Lucille make to Lorcet?
(a) Sharpe will kill him for sure.
(b) Father Defoy will be there shortly.
(c) She will make sure he gets the gold.
(d) Sharpe will be back.

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

14. How long does Sharpe say it will take to clean the rust off?
(a) The rust will not come off.
(b) A week.
(c) A day.
(d) A few hours.

15. Of what does Gudin assure Sharpe?
(a) The man who killed Nicolls will be hung after court martial.
(b) Gudin killed the man who shot Nicolls.
(c) Nicolls pulled his weapon first.
(d) The shooting that killed Nicolls was an accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marie tell Sharpe to do when he wakes on Christmas Eve?

2. What does Lorcet find in Sharpe's accounts?

3. What does Lucille deliberately do as she is gathering the wash?

4. What happens when the wind rattles the door?

5. Whose orders was Sharpe following when he and others recovered the gold?

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