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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Aksel say Skovaard is?
(a) Has never lived in Copenhagen.
(b) Living in Drurse.
(c) No longer living at the warehouse.
(d) With the Crown Prince.

2. What does Sharpe do as he is riding in the hay wagon?
(a) Making plans to retrieve the gold.
(b) Plotting revenge against Pumphrey.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Plotting revenge against Lavisser.

3. What does Pumphrey give Sharpe?
(a) A new pistol.
(b) The name of an emergency contact in Copenhagen.
(c) Clothes suitable for a British noble.
(d) Money.

4. What does Baird want Sharpe to do?
(a) Spy on another captain suspected of treason.
(b) Go to Copenhagen with a British agent and protect the agent.
(c) Take two weeks leave and think over his desire to leave the army.
(d) Go to India on an espionage mission.

5. What is Sharpe having trouble doing?
(a) Convincing Skovaard of his good will.
(b) Finding a way out of where he is confined.
(c) Convincing Astrid that Lavisser is a traitor.
(d) Convincing the Crown Prince that Lavisser is working for the French.

6. In what does Sharpe say he is interested?
(a) Purchasing young girls.
(b) Buying some contraband absinthe.
(c) Finding a protitute he used to know.
(d) Buying a servant.

7. Who does Hocking think Sharpe is?
(a) A Scotland Yard undercover agent.
(b) A common footpad.
(c) An agent of the Crown.
(d) A man named Dunnett.

8. Who brandishes a knife at Sharpe?
(a) A dog owner.
(b) A childhood friend.
(c) A young woman.
(d) A drunken sailor.

9. How does Sharpe get the chimney soot off him?
(a) Bathing in Astrid's room.
(b) He does not worry about the soot and leaves the house while still dirty.
(c) He has no soot on him.
(d) Dunking in the rain barrel.

10. What does Sharpe ask his childhood friend?
(a) If Sharpe's mother is still alive.
(b) If Sharpe's brother still lives around there.
(c) If he minds that there will be trouble later.
(d) If the man's sister is still around.

11. How are the residents of Copenhagen towards Sharpe?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Aloof.
(d) Hostile.

12. What does Sharpe buy from a sailor on the ship?
(a) A bow and some arrows.
(b) A hunting knife.
(c) Two pistols and a cutlass.
(d) A rifle.

13. What do the British fear about what may happen in Denmark?
(a) The Danes may start privateering for the French.
(b) The Danes may fall to Napoleon's forces.
(c) The French may try to seize the Danish naval fleet.
(d) The French may start recruiting Danes.

14. What does Captain Dunnett say is the penalty for stealing from the Danes?
(a) Life in prison.
(b) Reduction in rank and 20 years hard labour.
(c) Twenty lashes.
(d) Death.

15. What does Baird say will ensure Sharpe of advancement?
(a) Success on a mission Baird intends to send him on.
(b) Sticking out his job in the quartermaster corps.
(c) Accepting a position back in India.
(d) Helping Wellesley again in Tunisia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose life did Sharpe save that resulted in the commission?

2. What does Skovaard read to Sharpe?

3. What do the Danish soldiers in a castle prepare?

4. What does Sharpe do with the soldier's horse after killing the soldier?

5. What can wealthy men learn in Willsen's club?

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