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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Astrid ask Sharpe to do after questioning Bang?
(a) Kills Bang.
(b) Spares his life.
(c) Finds her father.
(d) Goes back to his country.

2. What worries Lavisser?
(a) That Peyman will learn Lavisser is a double agent.
(b) That there was an intruder in his home the night before.
(c) That Peyman will talk to Sharpe using another interpreter.
(d) That the Crown Prince will learn of Visser.

3. Who does Chase order to accompany Sharpe?
(a) Hopper and Clouter.
(b) No one.
(c) Just Somes.
(d) Just Clouter.

4. What does Sharpe ask the person to whom he introduces himself?
(a) Where the gold is.
(b) Why he won't let the British keep the Danish fleet safe.
(c) Where Astrid is.
(d) Where Lavisser is.

5. Why does Sharpe say the British cannot bomb Copenhagen?
(a) The Crown Prince is still deciding upon a course of action.
(b) It is full of women and children.
(c) Lavisser will then use that to justify not handing over the ships.
(d) The Danish Army is arriving soon and will slaughter the small British force.

6. What surprises the British sailors on their way to the Danish fleet?
(a) The lack of sentries.
(b) The normal activities taking place at the piers.
(c) The quietness of the city.
(d) The friendliness of the Danes.

7. What does Baird have Captain Gordon debrief Sharpe?
(a) Baird is badly wounded.
(b) Baird is in planning an assault.
(c) Sharpe asks to report to Captain Gordon because he is angry with Baird.
(d) Baird does not want to be associated with a failed mission.

8. What does Lavisser hope the reduced number of bombs falling means?
(a) The British are running out of ammo.
(b) That the British have given up.
(c) The Crown Prince has conceded to the British demands.
(d) That the British have decided upon a less destrutive means of persuasion.

9. What does Chase not want to do?
(a) Kill Barker.
(b) Order Sharpe back to British lines.
(c) Help Sharpe rescue Skovaard and kill Lavisser.
(d) Any more bombing of Copenhagen.

10. How man guineas did England actually send with Lavisser?
(a) 22,000.
(b) 42,000.
(c) 80,000.
(d) 100,000.

11. Who rings a bell and summons a servant?
(a) Count Visser.
(b) Astrid's old nanny.
(c) The Captain of the Guards.
(d) Mme. Visser.

12. Why is Chase not going on the mission?
(a) He is the only one who knows the codes of retrieval.
(b) The admiral says he is too valuable to risk losing.
(c) He has to be able to speak to the Danish spies.
(d) He has a peg leg can cannot move fast enough.

13. What does Sharpe give Jens once they are away from the British troops?
(a) A note for Astrid.
(b) Skovaard's pistol.
(c) A note for Skovaard.
(d) A saber off a dead soldier.

14. How long has it been since Sharpe has seen Wellesley?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 8 years.

15. About what does Barker reassure Lavisser?
(a) That Peyman would believe Lavisser over a British soldier.
(b) That the intruder was probably a common thief.
(c) That the Crown Prince will be as charmed by Visser as every other man.
(d) That he and Lavissier will be far gone before anything happens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who questions Sharpe along with Gordon?

2. What do the British do after launching exploding bombs?

3. What troops are mostly civilians called up into the local militia?

4. What does the Crown Prince say that Denmark will not do willingly?

5. What does Sharpe still want to do?

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