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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 Lorcet admit?
(a) They will have to tie up Lucille and Sharpe.
(b) They will have to kill Lucille and Sharpe.
(c) He wants to take Lucille with them.
(d) He already took some of the gold.

2. What does Lucille deliberately do as she is gathering the wash?
(a) Motions to her daughter to leave.
(b) Motions to her son to leave.
(c) Drops a handkerchief.
(d) Sways her hips.

3. What does Hagman deliver?
(a) A baby girl.
(b) A bottle of wine from Picard.
(c) A newborn calf.
(d) A message from Picard.

4. Where does Sharpe lock the men who held Lucille and Patrick hostage?
(a) In the village jail.
(b) In the inn's cellar.
(c) In the chapel.
(d) In his house's cellar.

5. Whom does Challon push out of the room upstairs?
(a) Lucille.
(b) Marie.
(c) Sharpe.
(d) Patrick.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Challon harass Lucille?

2. What does Gudin mention that prompts Sharpe to ask for more information?

3. Whose orders was Sharpe following when he and others recovered the gold?

4. Who is sulking about his defeat?

5. Who in the village likes Sharpe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens between Challon and Lucille in the kitchen, and what is Lorcet's response?

2. What does Sharpe offer Gudin and what is Gudin's reply?

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

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

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

6. Where does Sharpe go on the morning of Christmas Eve?

7. Why is Sharpe in Normandy, and what does he think about when he holds his rifle?

8. What does Sharpe tell Lorcet when Lorcet calls upstairs to Challon?

9. What does Sharpe think would be the best thing to do when he returns home? Why doesn't he do it? What does he find when he enters the kitchen?

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

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