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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the owner of the bar teach Sharpe?
(a) How to spot a card cheat.
(b) How to survive on the streets.
(c) How to read.
(d) How to play whist.

2. What does Harper and Sharpe deposit with official agents?
(a) Some of the captured riches from Brussels.
(b) Some of the captured riches from LaFitte.
(c) Some of the captured riches from Vitoria.
(d) Some of the captured riches from Waterloo.

3. What does Sharpe do after leaving the state function?
(a) Start off to find the 2nd battalion.
(b) Have a sexual liaision with a beautiful woman.
(c) Meet up with Lt. Col. Girdwood.
(d) Go to sleep.

4. How do Harper and Sharpe make their way through the countryside?
(a) Borrowing from a governement secret agent.
(b) Incognito as nobles.
(c) On money from their prize catch.
(d) Poaching and doing odd jobs.

5. Who escapes while Sharpe is talking with Jane?
(a) Harper.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Marriott.
(d) Merrel.

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

7. With whom does Sharpe have a discussion about his regiment?
(a) Colonel Nairn.
(b) A prisoner named General Lafitte.
(c) Patrick Harper.
(d) Lord Cornwallis.

8. How are the recruits documented?
(a) They receive a tiny brand on their shoulder.
(b) Forms they have to sign or make their mark.
(c) They give their hand print.
(d) They receive a tiny tattoo on their shoulder.

9. Where is the opening set?
(a) Near Brussels.
(b) France.
(c) Spain.
(d) Russia.

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

11. Who are Dick Vaughn and Paddy O'Keefe?
(a) Two corporals with the recruiter.
(b) Two highway brigands who try to accost Harper and Sharpe.
(c) Two men who refuse to sign up at the last moment.
(d) The aliases Sharpe and Harper assume as recruits.

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

13. Who are Weller and Marriott?
(a) Two men who sign up at the same time as Sharpe and Harper.
(b) The Lord and his chatelaine over that village.
(c) The Lord and his son over that village.
(d) The other 2 recruiters with whom Sharpe's group meets up.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe give Maggie?

2. Who has Simmerson promised Jane's hand in marriage?

3. What has been happening to the men who have been recruited for the second battalion?

4. What does Jane tell Sharpe happens to the trained enlisted men?

5. Who serves as a spy for Lord Fenner?

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