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

3. What does the sentry announce to the others?
(a) The priest in the village is headed their way.
(b) Two boys are coming toward the farmhouse.
(c) He sees Sharpe's cart, and it has some bags in it.
(d) Scores of people are coming toward the farm.

4. What does Lorcet admit?
(a) They will have to tie up Lucille and Sharpe.
(b) They will have to kill Lucille and Sharpe.
(c) He wants to take Lucille with them.
(d) He already took some of the gold.

5. How does Lucille know Sharpe is playing a game with the men?
(a) He retrieves an old key that opens a chapel on her property.
(b) He winks at her.
(c) He uses the present tense to speak about a dead person.
(d) He pulls out a key that opens a mausoleum on her property.

6. What does Lucille deliberately do as she is gathering the wash?
(a) Motions to her daughter to leave.
(b) Sways her hips.
(c) Motions to her son to leave.
(d) Drops a handkerchief.

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

8. Who is Monsieur Plaquet?
(a) A former enemy of Sharpe's.
(b) The owner of a bank in Paris.
(c) A man with whom Sharpe has an agreement.
(d) The mayor of Seville.

9. 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.

10. The small man says he is _____________.
(a) Maitre Henri Lorcet.
(b) A former Dragoon.
(c) A former Captain in the French Navy.
(d) Napoleon's former burser.

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

12. Who advises against Picard's suggestion?
(a) Santon.
(b) No one.
(c) Caillou.
(d) Gudin.

13. What happens when Lucille screams?
(a) Callon hits Patrick.
(b) Patrick starts crying.
(c) Challon hits her.
(d) Lorcet yells up the stairs.

14. Who appears on the road above the farm?
(a) A woman driving a wagon.
(b) A man driving a wagon.
(c) Six men.
(d) Two deer.

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