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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe notice about the enlistment process?
(a) It is sloppy but basically by the book.
(b) It is quite professional.
(c) There are a few minor irregularities.
(d) It is totally irregular and fraudulent.

2. Why is Marriott constantly beaten?
(a) He is slow witted.
(b) He tries to assert his rights.
(c) He is Irish.
(d) He is lazy.

3. Who is deeply in debt to Lord Fenner?
(a) Maggie Joyce.
(b) Anne Camoynes.
(c) John Weldon.
(d) Patrick Harper.

4. Why does a crowd gather at the end of the play?
(a) To acknowledge Sharpe and Harper's attendance.
(b) To greet the Prince of Wales.
(c) To pay homage to the king, who has made an appearance.
(d) To greet the Prince of Orange.

5. Who is Lieutenant Colonel Girdwood?
(a) The aide de camp to Prince of Orange.
(b) The second battalion's commander.
(c) The first battalion's commander.
(d) The aide de camp to Cornwallis.

6. What do Harper and Sharpe do later that night?
(a) Leave the city.
(b) Go looking for who hired the men that followed Sharpe.
(c) Sleep off their liquor.
(d) Go pay a visit to Lord Fenner.

7. Who owns the bar where Sharpe goes?
(a) Maggie Joyce.
(b) Anne Camoynes.
(c) Isabell Harper.
(d) Jessica Strong.

8. What does Sharpe decide to let his enemies think?
(a) That he has returned to France.
(b) That he is dead.
(c) That he has fled to the United States.
(d) He does not care what his enemies think.

9. In what are the men on the island initially drilled?
(a) Artillery.
(b) Rifles and bayonets.
(c) Sapper work.
(d) Parade and marching.

10. To whom does Girdwood hand over the new recruits?
(a) Sergeant Weller.
(b) Sergeant Hooper.
(c) Sergeant John Lynch.
(d) He takes charge of them himself.

11. Where do the men head eventually?
(a) Charline.
(b) France.
(c) Eaton.
(d) Essex.

12. What does Nairn think Sharpe should do?
(a) Accept a position as aide de camp to Wellington.
(b) Investigate the second battalion.
(c) Accept a position as army liaision to Admiral Nelson.
(d) Retire.

13. What happens just before Sharpe's Regiment opens?
(a) Patrick Harper is gravely wounded.
(b) Sharpe is gravely wounded.
(c) Napoleon has surrendered.
(d) A combat encounter between the first battalion of the South Essex Regiment and French forces.

14. What does the person that Maggie Joyce sends give Sharpe?
(a) Some money.
(b) A pistol and a warning.
(c) A note from Lord Fenner.
(d) A sword.

15. What does the person who is asked about the second battalion say?
(a) He will look into the matter.
(b) The training grounds have moved.
(c) He is not responsible for those type of matters.
(d) The battalion is on its way to France at the moment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Harper and Sharpe go?

2. Who is failing at his basic tasks?

3. What does Nairn suggest that outrages Sharpe?

4. What does Sharpe give Maggie?

5. What does Lynch do to Weller's dog?

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