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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 is Lennox's nationality?
(a) Scottish.
(b) English.
(c) Welsh.
(d) Irish.

2. What does Sharpe order his soldiers to use as a target?
(a) Their stocks.
(b) A fence post.
(c) Simmerson's tent.
(d) An oak tree.

3. In which country did Lawford and Sharpe serve together?
(a) West Indies.
(b) Spain.
(c) India.
(d) France.

4. What does Hogan joke he can do now the Spanish have arrived?
(a) Take out his anger.
(b) Go to bed.
(c) Sleep at night.
(d) Win the war.

5. What does Forrest say he once suppressed in Chelmsford?
(a) A political demonstration.
(b) A workers' strike.
(c) A food riot.
(d) A Mayday riot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lawford's rank in the army?

2. What do Sharpe and his men now have the materials to do at the end of the chapter?

3. What are stocks?

4. What is Sharpe's rank at the beginning of the novel?

5. How does the author describe the priest's Spanish?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sharpe prove Simmerson wrong in Chapter Three?

2. How does Sharpe know Lieutenant Colonel William Lawson?

3. How does the relationship between Josephina and Sharpe develop in this section?

4. How is Sharpe's evening disrupted in Chapter Twelve?

5. How does Henry Simmerson treat his men?

6. What are Lennox's thought before he dies?

7. How does Sharpe react to the situation with Josephina in Chapter Eleven?

8. How do Simmerson and the Spanish jeopardize the mission at the start of Chapter Six?

9. Why is Simmerson a threat to Sharpe's career?

10. Why is capturing the French Eagle so important to Sharpe's career?

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