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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the court deny Sharpe in his request about being hung?
(a) He can wear his green jacket.
(b) He can be shoot with a firing squad.
(c) He can have an appeal.
(d) He can commit suicide.

2. What did Hogan promise the man in question #49 if he would hang in Sharpe's place?
(a) His brother would live.
(b) He would be found not guilty by the army.
(c) His mother would receive payment.
(d) His wife would get his army pension.

3. What arrives at the Sharpe's camp in Chapter 3 that Sharpe believes is unnecessary?
(a) Tents.
(b) Wagons.
(c) Mules.
(d) Field artillery.

4. What kind of hair does the prisoner being hung have?
(a) Short black hair.
(b) Short blond hair.
(c) Long, black hair.
(d) Long brown hair.

5. Why doesn't Wellington execute Sharpe?
(a) He needs Sharpe to fight the French.
(b) He knows that he is innocent.
(c) He promised Sharpe's wife.
(d) He doesn't beleive in the death penalty.

6. Why was Sharpe arrested in Chapter 5?
(a) For stealing from the Spainish.
(b) For selling the tents.
(c) For selling the mules.
(d) For the murder of Helene's husband.

7. Where did Patrick and Isabella meet?
(a) Ireland.
(b) London.
(c) Madrid.
(d) Badajoz.

8. Why does Sharpe feel guilty?
(a) About the death of his wife.
(b) That Harper was killed.
(c) That his wife lost a leg to artillery.
(d) About the death of his daughter.

9. What does Angel do obsessively with his weapon?
(a) Clean it.
(b) Threaten people with it.
(c) Sleep with it.
(d) Play with it.

10. What does Ducos want Helene to do?
(a) Leave her husband.
(b) Take a letter to France.
(c) Accuse Sharpe of ill conduct towards her.
(d) Seduce Sharpe.

11. Why was the man in question #49 going to be hanged?
(a) For looting a church.
(b) For raping Wellington's wife.
(c) For shooting an officer.
(d) For stealing ammunition.

12. To where is the French marching in Chapter 10?
(a) De la Toulaine Geninie.
(b) Madrid.
(c) Paris.
(d) Burgos.

13. Why is Sharpe glad his horse has a long tail?
(a) To hang onto it when fording a river.
(b) To blend in with the French.
(c) To keep the flies off him.
(d) So he can braid it easily.

14. What does Hacha think about the death of the Marques?
(a) Sharpe had no reason to kill him.
(b) It will save Spain.
(c) He deserved it.
(d) He was a Catholic so will go to heaven.

15. What do the Spanish think about Sharpe being sentenced to hanging?
(a) It is wrong, he didn't do it.
(b) It is right.
(c) It is too good and quick.
(d) They don't have an opinion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Topographically, where is the convent located?

2. What is the result of what Sharpe did to the French in Chapter 1?

3. What puts Sharpe in a bad mood in Chapter 3?

4. Why does Harper worry about Sharpe?

5. Where does Sharpe find Helene?

(see the answer keys)

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