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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lorcet find in Sharpe's accounts?
(a) Some money not accounted for.
(b) No evidence of gold nor dishonesty.
(c) No evidence of Sharpe having stolen gold.
(d) Lorcet cannot find Sharpe's books.

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

3. Who kicks Challon between the legs?
(a) Malan.
(b) No one.
(c) Lucille.
(d) Sharpe.

4. Who fiercely hates Sharpe in the village?
(a) No one.
(b) The mayor.
(c) Malan.
(d) The retired French soldiers.

5. Who is standing there when the door to the church suddenly opens?
(a) No one.
(b) Three hooded men and Sharpe.
(c) Callon.
(d) Lucille.

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

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

8. What does Challon promise Lucille?
(a) She is about to enter paradise.
(b) Sharpe will not be harmed.
(c) Lucille will not be harmed.
(d) Patrick will not be harmed.

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

10. What does Picard suggest they do when they hear gunfire?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Help Gudin's men.
(c) Send a messenger for reinforcements.
(d) Get into France as fast as possible.

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

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

13. What does Malan do as Sharpe greets him?
(a) Smiles.
(b) Spits.
(c) Shakes his fist.
(d) Throws dirt at Sharpe.

14. Why does Lubecque have one of his men drive the cart?
(a) He thinks Sharpe is more easily guarded in the back of the cart.
(b) He does not trust Sharpe.
(c) He does not want to drive the cart himself.
(d) He has no left hand and cannot drive the cart.

15. What does Gudin mention that prompts Sharpe to ask for more information?
(a) A woman both men knew in India.
(b) A horse Gudin lost last winter.
(c) Gudin's bad luck since India.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Daniel Hagman want when he pokes his head into the room where Sharpe and Gudin are talking?

2. Who is Monsieur Plaquet?

3. Sharpe tells the congregation a story about _____________.

4. What does Gudin offer?

5. What does Sharpe doubt will ever happen?

(see the answer keys)

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