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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 say will happen to anyone who breaks rank?
(a) They will be lashed.
(b) They will be court marshalled.
(c) They will be shot.
(d) They will be sent home.

2. What is the name of Sharpe's regiment?
(a) The 62nd Battalion.
(b) The South Essex Regiment.
(c) The 95th Rifles.
(d) The South London Regiment.

3. Who tells Sharpe he will ruin his career?
(a) Gibbons.
(b) Wellesey.
(c) Simmerson.
(d) Hogan.

4. What does Harper say the ox-carts axles creak like?
(a) Women.
(b) Babies.
(c) Wolves.
(d) Banshees.

5. Whose footbeats ring on the flagstones at the beginning of Chapter Eleven?
(a) The Coldstone Guards.
(b) The French Guards.
(c) The South Essex Troops.
(d) The 97th Riflemen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harper use to clean out Sharpe's wound?

2. In which country was Sir Arthur Wellesey born?

3. Who has placed Hogan and Sharpe under arrest?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Wellesley help Sharpe in this section?

3. Why does Sharpe resent men like Simmerson?

4. What makes Sharpe different from other officers?

5. How does Simmerson cause problems in Chapter Fourteen?

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

7. How does Henry Simmerson treat his men?

8. Why does Sharpe find it difficult to arrest the deserters?

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

10. What problems do the Spanish troops cause the British in this section?

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