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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Crew do with the thing they made for Sharpe?
(a) Hung it from their ratlines.
(b) The dropped it overboard.
(c) Presented it to Sharpe while he is there.
(d) Burned it.

2. What does Sharpe say about Skovaard?
(a) He is in danger.
(b) He has fled to Russia.
(c) He is in the Crown Prince's dungeon.
(d) He is dead.

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

4. What shocks Sharpe about where he and Astrid visit?
(a) At the variety of good available on the market.
(b) At the burn scars on Astrid's aunt's face.
(c) At how kind and welcoming her grandmother is.
(d) How humane the orphanage is.

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

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

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

8. How do the people pass secrets?
(a) In baby carriages.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) In false canes.
(d) False books.

9. What is one thing Hopper provides Sharpe?
(a) A letter for Lavisser.
(b) A letter for Barker.
(c) A can of explosives.
(d) A seven-barreled gun.

10. What is the Danish Crown Prince preparing to do?
(a) Arrest Skovaard.
(b) Negotiate with the English.
(c) Leave the city.
(d) Arrest Lavisser.

11. Who is the first person Sharpe finds in Lavisser's house?
(a) Visser.
(b) Barker.
(c) Lavisser.
(d) Skovaard.

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

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

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

15. What are Castenschiold's initial plans concerning the British?
(a) To surprise them before they expect resistence.
(b) To assassinate their leaders and they may go home.
(c) He has not plans as of yet.
(d) To negotiate a compromise.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has been tortured?

2. What does Baird have Captain Gordon debrief Sharpe?

3. With what is Wellesley captivated?

4. What is sitting next to the chair in the lawn?

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

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