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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 Sharpe tell Malan to break?
(a) The bedroom shutters.
(b) The attic window.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The bell.

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

3. About what do Harper and Sharpe argue near the end of the story?
(a) Who will kill the sheep.
(b) Who will stay in Spain.
(c) Who will kill the cow.
(d) What Sharpe's superiors will do.

4. What does Sharpe learn about as the enemy are collecting their death and wounded?
(a) The death of Marie.
(b) Picard's death.
(c) Nicholl's death.
(d) The advancement of two more French brigades.

5. What does Father Defoy wish Jacques would do?
(a) Buy a farm and settle down.
(b) Forgive the English.
(c) Something beneficial for the village.
(d) Re-enlist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Daniel Hagman want when he pokes his head into the room where Sharpe and Gudin are talking?

2. Whom does Father Defoy embarrass publicly?

3. How does Lucille know Sharpe is playing a game with the men?

4. What happens when the wind rattles the door?

5. What does Challon put under his arm?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Challon take Lucille, and what interrupts his plans for her the first time?

2. What does Lucille hope about Sharpe, and how does she feel about leaving her home?

3. What does Locet tell Sharpe to do? How does Locet arrange for that to happen?

4. What does Lucille do when Challon pushes on the bed, and what is Challon's response?

5. What does Lorcet agree to with Challon, and what does he find distasteful about Challon's suggestion?

6. What does Sharpe tell Locet about the gold?

7. What does Sharpe tell the people in the church?

8. Who pushes their way into the house while Sharpe is gone, and what do they do and say?

9. What does Sharpe do when he hears of Nicholls' death?

10. What is Picard doing while Gudin and Sharpe talk?

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