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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 Farthingdale decide to do on Christmas day?
(a) Attack the castle.
(b) Have a large Christmas dinner.
(c) Leave with the women.
(d) Wait for reinforcements.

2. Why did the Peer choose Frenada as winter headquarters?
(a) Has the best fox hunting in the area.
(b) It is near the French border.
(c) It has plenty of food for the troops.
(d) It is sheltered by the mountains.

3. Who summons Captain Sharpe in Chapter 1?
(a) Major Hogan.
(b) Viscount Wellington.
(c) Colonel Johnson.
(d) General Nairn.

4. What does the Chaplain General ask Nairn to do?
(a) Allow the Jewish soldiers to rest on Saturday.
(b) Set up services for the Methodist.
(c) Keep Methodism in check.
(d) Attend masses for the dead.

5. Who does Sharpe capture when he first enters Andrados?
(a) Two of the capturing forces.
(b) Viscount Pierre Duplicios.
(c) Hakeswill.
(d) Two Frenchmen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two leaders of the Andrados force doing when they talk to Sharpe?

2. What does Pot-au-Feu allow for the hostage women?

3. How does Farthingdale feel about Sharpe's inability to bring back Lady Farthingdale?

4. Who is Lady Farthingdale in reality?

5. What does Josefina tell Sharpe about Lord Farthingdale and how he feels about her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sharpe urge Farthingdale to do and what does he do? What do the defenders do?

2. What does Sharpe and Harper do when they first arrive at Andrados?

3. What does Sharpe do with the prisoners and what bothers him the most about the prisoners as far as who he wanted to capture?

4. How does Farthingdale act towards Sharpe when he returns without the woman?

5. What happens to Sharpe and the three others in the convent shortly after they meet?

6. Who are the men Sharpe and Harper see first at Andrados and why are they there?

7. Why is Lady Farthingdale at Andrados, who is with her and what happens to them?

8. What does Farthingdale do when he is injured and what does Sharpe see after he does it?

9. How important is Andrados, where it is situated and what types of protections are in place around it?

10. What is happening in Andrados at the beginning of the novel and who is doing it?

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