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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. What does Cornwell say exists to increase awareness of soldiers who fought in the early 19th century?
(a) Sharpe's Legacy Society.
(b) The Art of War Society.
(c) Sharpe Appreciation Society.
(d) The Soldiers' Scrapbook.

2. What does Caillou know Gudin will do?
(a) Keep his Eagle at any cost.
(b) Surrender.
(c) Waste his men's lives.
(d) Agree to leave Spain without their weapons.

3. What does Cornwell say that characters sometimes do?
(a) Take a life of their own.
(b) Die when it seems unnecessary.
(c) Live long, peaceful lives after intense fighting as young adults.
(d) Evolve into someone different.

4. What is the state of England in Sharpe's Ransom?
(a) England is fighting the Americans.
(b) England is at peace.
(c) England is figting the Spanish.
(d) England is fighting the Danes.

5. Where is a French garrison located?
(a) The Fort at Ochagavia.
(b) Isle de France.
(c) Somewhere north of Sharpe's men.
(d) The Fort near Timcumpki.

Short Answer Questions

1. What delays Gudin?

2. With whose forces is Sharpe fighting in "Sharpe's Christmas"?

3. What attack is the French army attempting to repel?

4. What is the Bernard and Judy Cornwell Foundation?

5. What are Sharpe and the other man trying to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cornwell briefly describe in the introduction?

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

3. Why does Sharpe have hope the garrison will surrender, and what does the garrison have that Sharpe would like to take?

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

5. How does Gudin feel about leaving the fort at Ochagavia, and what is the group composed of who will be leaving the fort?

6. How did Cornwell feel about writing Sharpe's Christmas, and why did he feel that way?

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

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

9. What does Sharpe and d'Alembord see through Sharpe's telescope?

10. What does Caillou object to with the leaving of the fort? How does he threaten Gudin? How does Gudin feel about Caillou's threat?

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