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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the British do after launching exploding bombs?
(a) Send projectiles designed to start fires.
(b) Send in a letter of truce.
(c) March on the city.
(d) Wait to see what the Danes do.

2. Where is the rest of the Danish army?
(a) In Southern Denmark.
(b) They have to be called up.
(c) On the Russian border.
(d) On the northeastern border.

3. What does Wellesley order Sharpe to take to General Cathcart?
(a) Madame Visser.
(b) Astrid.
(c) Skovaard.
(d) A message about the Danish fleet.

4. For how long does Peyman have to defend Copenhagen?
(a) 5 months.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 2 months.
(d) A few days.

5. What does Sharpe say about Lavisser?
(a) He is still trying to get the Crown Prince to release the ships to the British.
(b) He is dead.
(c) He is working with the French.
(d) He gave the gold to the Crown Prince.

6. Why does Chase not want to do what is asked of him?
(a) He thinks Sharpe is needed undercover.
(b) There is no direct, official military order.
(c) He thinks Barker is merely a pawn.
(d) He thinks it's immoral to bomb civilians.

7. What is sitting next to the chair in the lawn?
(a) A large dog.
(b) The chest of gold.
(c) Astrid's cat.
(d) Crutches.

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

9. Where does Sharpe accompany Astrid?
(a) To her aunt's home.
(b) To her grandmother's home.
(c) To an orphanage.
(d) To market.

10. What is Sharpe assigned to do?
(a) Deal with Pumphrey.
(b) Deal with Barker.
(c) Deal with Skovaard.
(d) Deal with Lavisser.

11. How many guineas does Visser think England sent with Lavisser?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 500.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 8,000.

12. Who is in a chair on the lawn?
(a) Astrid.
(b) Lavisser.
(c) Barker.
(d) A woman.

13. To whom does Sharpe introduce himself?
(a) Lavisser's mother.
(b) Astrid's old nanny.
(c) The woman he shot.
(d) The Crown Prince.

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

15. Who is Jems?
(a) Skovaard's brother.
(b) Astrid's brother-in-law.
(c) Skovaard's butler.
(d) A Danish shipbuilder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gordon tell Sharpe is crucial for Sharpe to do?

2. What does Sharpe still want to do?

3. What shocks Sharpe about where he and Astrid visit?

4. What strategy does Castenschiold finally decide to take?

5. What did the Crew do with the thing they made for Sharpe?

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