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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Sharpe and Jane do?
(a) Have a private conversation.
(b) They talk after Sharpe stops her from screaming.
(c) Nothing since she runs away.
(d) They plan an escape.

2. 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) Go pay a visit to Lord Fenner.
(d) Sleep off their liquor.

3. Why does Sharpe note about the medical certification of the recruits?
(a) It is not done by the recruiting doctor, but rather by his assistant.
(b) It is very lax.
(c) It is very rigorous.
(d) It is not done by a magistrate.

4. What does one of the men following Sharpe tell him?
(a) The man refuses to talk.
(b) That he was supposed to just follow Sharpe.
(c) That he was hired by Sharpe's ex-wife to kill him.
(d) That he was hired by a soldier to kill Sharpe.

5. Where does Sharpe meet Jane Gibbons?
(a) At a formal dinner.
(b) In her uncle's orchards.
(c) While swimming in the ocean.
(d) At Simmerson's boathouse.

6. What is the recruiter like who they encounter?
(a) Hostile.
(b) Boorish.
(c) Businesslike.
(d) Likeable and persuasive.

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

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

9. What has been determined about the second battalion of which Sharpe is a part?
(a) It is not combat effective.
(b) It needs to release about 10 percent of its men who have fulfilled their contract.
(c) It needs a rotation home.
(d) It will receive a unit citation.

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

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

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

13. 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 play whist.
(d) How to read.

14. What accompanies the work parties that go off the island?
(a) Girdwood.
(b) Simmerson.
(c) Lynch.
(d) Unusually heavy guard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Patrick Harper?

2. What seems likely about Sharpe and Jane?

3. What does Sharpe trust to Maggie?

4. What is the play about that Sharpe and Harper attend?

5. Whose numbers are seriously depleted after the conflict?

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