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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Simmerson think that people don't recognize about him?
(a) His fun-loving nature.
(b) His inner beauty.
(c) His love of Britain.
(d) His military brilliance.

2. Which of the following don't the British and French trade in this section?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Brandy.
(c) Wine.
(d) Tobacco.

3. Who is with Sharpe at the beginning of Chapter Eighteen?
(a) Gibbons.
(b) Harper.
(c) Josephina.
(d) Hogan.

4. What does Wellesley present at the end of the Epilogue?
(a) Sharpe's medal for bravery.
(b) Sharpe's Eagle.
(c) Sharpe's sword.
(d) Sharpe's musket.

5. About whom does Hogan want to give Sharpe news in Chapter Twenty-two?
(a) Josephina.
(b) Hardy.
(c) Berry.
(d) Gibbons.

6. Who will pick the men to be punished?
(a) Josephina.
(b) Simmerson.
(c) The generals.
(d) The captains.

7. Who does Wellesley say has failed the British on every promise?
(a) The Russians.
(b) The Spanish.
(c) The Germans.
(d) The French.

8. For what does Simmerson say the troops have to reassemble later that evening?
(a) Battle.
(b) Drill.
(c) Punishment.
(d) Prayers.

9. What favor does Josephina ask from Sharpe in this section?
(a) To kill Gibbons and Berry.
(b) To take her back to Lisbon.
(c) To write to her husband.
(d) To arrange for a band to play.

10. Where does Sharpe ask his troops to gather in ChapterFifteen?
(a) The timber yard.
(b) The hospital tent.
(c) His lodgings.
(d) The car park.

11. What problem does Harper describe to Sharpe?
(a) The men are refusing to agree to the floggings.
(b) The French are marching towards them.
(c) Josephina has switched alliances to the French.
(d) Simmerson is arranging to flog Sharpe.

12. What does Simmerson say will happen to sixty men at 6pm?
(a) They will be shot.
(b) They will be sent home.
(c) They will be sent out scouting.
(d) They will be flogged.

13. What general does Simmerson say he dislikes?
(a) Hogan.
(b) Harper.
(c) Wellesley.
(d) Hardy.

14. What is the name of the American historian on whom Sharpe says he relied heavily?
(a) Nick Crows.
(b) Nat Wheaton.
(c) Peter Wallis.
(d) Jac Weller.

15. Whose biography did Lady Elizabeth Longford write?
(a) Cuesta's.
(b) Napolean's.
(c) Simmerson's.
(d) Wellington's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Knowles want Sharpe to have if he is killed?

2. Why can't Sharpe and his men see much of the battlefield?

3. What is the name of Josephina's servant?

4. How does Sharpe prevent the French from attacking in Chapter Nineteen?

5. What is the problem the Spanish have caused the British in Chapter Seventeen?

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