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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) Wait to see what the Danes do.
(b) Send in a letter of truce.
(c) March on the city.
(d) Send projectiles designed to start fires.

2. What happens to Jens on the way to do what Sharpe asked of him?
(a) He is killed.
(b) He decides to just go back to his ship.
(c) He is wounded.
(d) He is captured and taken to the Danish rebel forces.

3. Where is Sharpe headed at the opening to Chapter 8?
(a) To kill Skovaard.
(b) Lavisser's family property.
(c) To kidnap the Crown Prince.
(d) To find Astrid.

4. What does Bang tell Sharpe about staying in the city?
(a) Sharpe will be asked to fight for the Danes.
(b) Sharpe will be arrested.
(c) It will soon be seige conditions.
(d) The Danes will expect him to stay away from the fighting.

5. Who has been tortured?
(a) Barker.
(b) Visser.
(c) No one.
(d) Skovaard.

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

7. What does Sharpe say that Gordon can order Sharpe to do?
(a) Not speak openly about Sharpe's mission.
(b) Kill Lavisser.
(c) Return to England.
(d) Resign his commission.

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

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

10. With what do Bang and Skovaard become increasingly annoyed?
(a) Lassiver's demands.
(b) Barker's demands.
(c) The refusal of the Danes to give the English what they want.
(d) Sharpe and Astrid's closeness.

11. Who is sarcastic and rude to Sharpe?
(a) Captain Gordon.
(b) Captain Dunnett.
(c) General Wellesley.
(d) General Baird.

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

13. What does Visser believe about Sharpe?
(a) That he intends to keep the gold..
(b) That he will let her go.
(c) That he will return the gold to the British.
(d) That he will not kill her.

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

15. Who asks Sharpe and Dunnett to remain calm?
(a) Captain Gordon.
(b) Pumphrey.
(c) Wellesley.
(d) Captain Murray.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sharpe and some others make?

2. What is the person in the chair on the lawn doing?

3. What does Sharpe fail to convey to Astrid?

4. Why does Sharpe say the British cannot bomb Copenhagen?

5. Who does Sharpe speak to at Skovaard's warehouse?

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