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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has sent for Sharpe?
(a) Colonel Hogan.
(b) Colonel Gudin.
(c) His wife.
(d) King George.

2. Where does Picard send the voltiguers?
(a) To the rear as reserves.
(b) To the vanguard.
(c) To the slopes where the riflemen are hidden.
(d) To the west to circle back around Irati.

3. Where are Sharpe's riflemen hidden?
(a) In a stand of trees.
(b) In Irati.
(c) In trenches along the west side of the road.
(d) Among the rocks above the barrels.

4. About what is Ensign Nicholls enthusiastic?
(a) Cards.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Dice.
(d) Drinking.

5. Who is CeCe Motz?
(a) Cornwell's assistant.
(b) An editor for the book company that publishes Sharpe's books.
(c) A young woman Sharpe meets in Sharpe's Waterloo.
(d) Sharpe's daughter's guardian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What delays Gudin?

2. What does Caillou know Gudin will do?

3. What does Sharpe order from Irati for his men?

4. What does Cornwell say that characters sometimes do?

5. What does Sharpe think would make a nice Christmas present for his battalion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has Sharpe been doing for the past ten years? Whom does he command? Why? When do Sharpe and his men march? What does Sharpe ignore?

2. How does Nicholls feel about Sharpe and Harper? What does he ask them? What is Sharpe's response?

3. What does Cornwell briefly describe in the introduction?

4. What does Gudin think about when he thinks of India?

5. What is Gudin told about Maria and what is his response?

6. What does Sharpe say to d'Alembord about India?

7. How long is each story in Sharpe's Christmas, and why are they that length?

8. Why is Caillou angry at Gudin about the women, and why is Gudin walking?

9. What does Cornwell say about the people who helped him write Sharpe's Christmas? What else does he address in the introduction?

10. What does Hogan tell Sharpe will be his immediate assignment?

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