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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Harper do?
(a) Goes to ground in the mud.
(b) Climbs a tree.
(c) Runs.
(d) Refuses to participate.

3. Who is Patrick Harper?
(a) Sharpe's Sergeant Major.
(b) The Sergeant who dies in Sharpe's arms in the last conflict.
(c) An Irishman who is charged with treason.
(d) Colonel Nairn's liaision to the 3rd Regiment.

4. Who is Lord Simon Fenner?
(a) Secretary to Admirals Nelson and Leighton.
(b) Secretary of the State of Readiness.
(c) Secretary of State at War.
(d) The leader of the house of Lords.

5. Where are small detachments sent from time to time?
(a) To work on the estate across the bridge.
(b) To France to join the 1st battalion.
(c) To join the 10th artillery.
(d) To join the 2nd regimental sharpshooters.

6. Who is summoned to account for the missing battalion recruits?
(a) No one.
(b) Girdwood.
(c) Lord Fenner.
(d) Harper.

7. How does Jane react?
(a) She tells Lynch.
(b) She immediately recognizes Sharpe.
(c) She runs away.
(d) She screams.

8. From where is the recruiter reimbursed for the costs of the drinks he buys potential recruits?
(a) A special recruiting fund.
(b) He takes it out of his own pocket.
(c) Lord Fenner.
(d) The recruits' enlistment bonus payments.

9. What does Sharpe do for a diversion?
(a) Starts a huge fire.
(b) Gets the men to line up in attack formation.
(c) Kidnaps Jane.
(d) Shoots out the windows of Girdwood's home.

10. What does Jane say she will leave in the boathouse?
(a) A gun.
(b) Her uncle's account books.
(c) Food and money.
(d) A map.

11. Upon whom is Sharpe invited to call?
(a) The Prince of Wales.
(b) The Duke of York.
(c) The Prince of Orange.
(d) The Duke of Orange.

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

13. Where is the last time Carline saw Lt. Col. Girdwood?
(a) Many months ago.
(b) About a year.
(c) Three days ago.
(d) Two weeks ago.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe give Maggie?

2. What happens when Marriott speaks up about the dog?

3. What is the recruiter like who they encounter?

4. Where is the second battalion of Sharpe's regiment?

5. What does Nairn think Sharpe should do?

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