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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Sergeant Horatio Havercamp?
(a) Sharpe's best friend from when he was young.
(b) The second battalion's recruiter.
(c) Patrick Harper's best friend.
(d) One of the enlisted men at the train station.

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

4. What is the unit designation on the enlistment forms?
(a) The 1st battalion of the 10th artillery brigade.
(b) The 2nd battalion of the South Essex regiment.
(c) The 2nd battalion of the 3rd rifle brigade.
(d) It is blank.

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

6. What happens when Marriott speaks up about the dog?
(a) He is beaten.
(b) He is ignored.
(c) He is given latrine duty for a month.
(d) He is dismissed from the service.

7. For how many men is the second battalion drawing rations?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 30.
(c) 700.
(d) 2,500.

8. Who does Girdwood hate?
(a) Everyone.
(b) The Welsh.
(c) The Irish.
(d) The French.

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

10. With whom do Harper and Shapre meet up?
(a) Maggie Joyce.
(b) Lord Fenner.
(c) Paddy O'Keefe.
(d) Sergeant Horatio Havercamp.

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

12. Who serves as a spy for Lord Fenner?
(a) Anne Camoynes.
(b) Sharpe.
(c) Isabelle Harper.
(d) Maggie Joyce.

13. What does Sharpe and the other recruits do for the next few days?
(a) Drill and practice sword fighting.
(b) Get outfitted and ready to ship to France.
(c) Lie around while the recruiter finishes getting his quota.
(d) March with the recruiter from town to town to enlist more men.

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

15. Who is failing at his basic tasks?
(a) Lieutenant Colonel Girdwood.
(b) Captail d'Alembord.
(c) Colonel Nairn.
(d) Lord Fenner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose estate do the recruits pass?

2. Whose numbers are seriously depleted after the conflict?

3. In what is Sharpe tutored?

4. What does Girdwood ban from the group hunting Harper?

5. What is Chelmsford?

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