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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Skovaard say the woman is who is with Lavisser?
(a) The Crown Prince's nanny.
(b) Someone from the French embassy.
(c) Lavisser's sister.
(d) Lavisser's wife.

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

3. What does Sharpe discover when he comes out of hiding?
(a) Lavisser is badly wounded on the beach.
(b) The cavalry left one man behind.
(c) There is a draft horse tied to a tree near the water.
(d) Lavisser is waiting for Sharpe.

4. Why is Baird in a foul mood the next morning?
(a) His wife was mad at him.
(b) The Duke of Wellington upbraids him for a protocol error.
(c) Hangover.
(d) The King wants Baird's army to return to India in two weeks.

5. What happened to Grace?
(a) She is killed by one of Sharpe's longtime enemies.
(b) She left Sharpe for another man.
(c) She is living with Sharpe's mother.
(d) She dies in childbirth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sharpe's present assignment in the Army?

2. What is Captain Willsen doing at the opening to Chapter 1?

3. Where is Astrid?

4. What has Baird heard about Sharpe?

5. What does Baird say that seems to momentarily shock Lavisser?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sharpe escape confinement and what frightens him about his escape means?

2. What does Baird want of Sharpe?

3. Describe the encounter between Sharpe and Barker.

4. Why is Richard Sharpe angry about his commission and how did he get a commission?

5. What does Pumphrey say to Sharpe in private?

6. What does Skovaard read to Sharpe out of a Danish newspaper and what does Skovaard do?

7. What is the reason for the mission to Copenhagen?

8. Where is Sharpe on Friday night at the opening of Chapter 2, and what does he do initially?

9. What does Sharpe tell Hocking he wants and what is Hocking's response?

10. Describe Sharpe's encounter with Hocking when Hocking brings Sharpe a young girl.

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