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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. How long does Sharpe figure it will take the French to advance?
(a) They are in retreat.
(b) A day.
(c) A few hours.
(d) An hour.

2. Who commands the piquet on the south road?
(a) Captain Southby.
(b) Captain Harper.
(c) Captain Nicholls.
(d) Captain Smith.

3. What do two of the volumes of Gudin's diaries concern?
(a) His deceased sons.
(b) The only successful campaign he has carried out.
(c) His deceased wife.
(d) Gudin's time in India.

4. What is one question Bernard Cornwell is often asked about Richard Sharpe?
(a) If he lived a long life.
(b) If he actually settled down in Normandy.
(c) If he ever reclaims his daughter.
(d) If he finally emigrated to the United States.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does D'Alembord think of Sharpe?

3. Whom does Sharpe order to advance when the French are only fifty paces away?

4. What does Sharpe order Smith to do?

5. Why does Gudin not think the Sharpe he is about to encounter is the same one he met in India?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. What does Cornwell briefly describe in the introduction?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What finally breaks up the French brigade's advance?

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