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

2. What does the Crown Prince say that Denmark will not do willingly?
(a) Join the French.
(b) Remain neutral.
(c) Give up her fleet.
(d) Join the British.

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

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

5. Where do Sharpe and Astrid take her father?
(a) To a British medic.
(b) To the orphanage.
(c) To his home.
(d) To the hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sharpe assigned to do?

2. With what is Wellesley captivated?

3. What strategy does Castenschiold finally decide to take?

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

5. What does Bang tell Sharpe about staying in the city?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lavisser say about Skovaard and who defends the man?

2. Where does Sharpe go with Astrid and how does it affect him?

3. How is Skovaard when Sharpe rescues him and where does Sharpe take him?

4. What does Sharpe give Jems and tell him to do?

5. How does Sharpe prove Visser's involvement with the French?

6. What does Pumphrey say to Sharpe about his Army career and how does Pumphrey imply that Sharpe should cooperate?

7. What does the leter to General Payman from the British say and what is Peyman's response?

8. What transpires between Astrid and Sharpe concerning their relationship?

9. What transpires at the meeting Peyman has with his aides?

10. What is said about General Castenschiold's Danish militia?

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