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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 D'Alembord think of Sharpe?
(a) Sharpe is a womanizer.
(b) Sharpe should not be an officer.
(c) Sharpe has more integrity than many of the gentlemen officers.
(d) Sharpe is the best soldier D'Alembord has ever known.

2. Why won't Gudin ride his horse?
(a) The horse is lame.
(b) The horse is in an advanced stage of pregnancy.
(c) The horse is ill.
(d) His lieutenant is ill and riding the horse.

3. Who is the Peer's Chief of Intelligence?
(a) Patrick Harper.
(b) Colonel Hogan.
(c) Richard Sharpe.
(d) Colonel Gudin.

4. Who does Cornwell say commissioned the Sharpe stories originally?
(a) Daily Mail.
(b) His best friend who is an editor.
(c) His former English professor.
(d) His mother.

5. Whom does Sharpe order to advance when the French are only fifty paces away?
(a) No one.
(b) The light artillery.
(c) The Prince of Wale's Own Volunteers.
(d) The archers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does CeCe Mot do?

2. Who is Ensign Nicholls?

3. Why is Sharpe glad the French garrison is accompanied by women?

4. Where will Sharpe's men cover the west road?

5. What is the state of England in Sharpe's Ransom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gudin do after Caillou breaks the truce?

2. What does Caillou do to keep Gudin from meeting with the British truce?

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

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

5. Why did Cornwell think writing about a Christmas with Sharpe was odd?

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

7. What are Sharpe and Harper attempting to do for Christmas at the beginning of the story? How is their task interrupted?

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

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

10. Why is General Picard upset? What pleases him about his men? Why does he think he is different from Gudin?

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