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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens as they drive off?
(a) A wheel falls off the cart.
(b) One of the horses rears.
(c) The cart lurches from side to side.
(d) A wheel freezes on the cart.

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

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

4. What does Lucille cook for Challon and his two hussars?
(a) Bacon and eggs.
(b) Duck.
(c) Gruel.
(d) Pancakes.

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

6. What does Sharpe offer Gudin?
(a) The opportunity to sneak into France without a fight.
(b) A chance to escape.
(c) The opportunity to return to the abandoned French fort.
(d) To choose to fight or surrender.

7. What does Sharpe think his most rationale plan would be as he approaches the farmhouse?
(a) To sneak in through a back window.
(b) To rush it and surprise the men inside.
(c) To observe it from afar for awhile.
(d) To try to smoke out the occupants.

8. Lorcet says that Lucille had better pray for ______________.
(a) Sharpe to return.
(b) Sharpe not to get stuck in a drift.
(c) Sharpe to be better than most of the English.
(d) Sharpe to still have the gold.

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

10. What does Gudin offer?
(a) A compromise.
(b) A one-on-one duel to settle the affair.
(c) His parole.
(d) His surrender.

11. Why does Picard think Caillou is commanding the forces that are fighting?
(a) Caillou outranks Gudin.
(b) Gudin would never fight so fiercely.
(c) Picard does not know who might be in charge.
(d) Gudin was not coming from that direction.

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

13. Sharpe tells the congregation a story about _____________.
(a) An emperor, gold, and greed.
(b) His return to Normandy.
(c) A general, silver, and greed.
(d) His daughter being left in Normandy.

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

15. Who follows Lucille upstairs?
(a) Challon.
(b) Marie.
(c) One of the hussars.
(d) Lorcet.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Sharpe say it will take to clean the rust off?

2. Why is Sharpe bluffing with Gudin?

3. What does Lubecque order Sharpe to do?

4. What does Sharpe doubt will ever happen?

5. What does Lucille ask of the men who break into her home?

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