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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Girdwood decide to do about Harper?
(a) Put him in stocks for a week.
(b) Hang him.
(c) Shoot him.
(d) Hunt him like he is game.

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

3. Who does Sharpe encounter after speaking with Carline?
(a) Jacobs.
(b) Girdwood.
(c) No one.
(d) Sergeant Carew.

4. Who does Maggie Joyce send after Sharpe?
(a) An assassin.
(b) A young girl.
(c) A young boy.
(d) A bouncer.

5. What seems likely about Sharpe and Jane?
(a) They are like oil and water.
(b) They have been lovers.
(c) They come from similar backgrounds.
(d) They feel strong affection for each other.

6. Why do Girdwood and Simmerson make such an effort to find escaped recruits?
(a) For practice in tracking.
(b) Because Girdwood and Simmerson are engaged in illegal activities and the recruit might report them.
(c) As an example to other recruits.
(d) They have paid a lot of money for their training and room and board.

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

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

9. 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.

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

11. In what condition is Marriott found?
(a) Exhausted and half-drowned.
(b) Severely beaten.
(c) Dead.
(d) Excellent.

12. What is one thing the recruiter implies the army has?
(a) Lots of free time.
(b) Excellent room and board.
(c) Regular hours.
(d) Good training programs.

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

14. What does Lynch do to Weller's dog?
(a) Crushes it with his boot.
(b) Makes it leave the island.
(c) Throws it into the water to drown.
(d) Feeds it scraps.

15. Who has Simmerson promised Jane's hand in marriage?
(a) Girdwood.
(b) Lynch.
(c) Lord Smithwood.
(d) Sharpe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe think of the recent battle?

2. What accompanies the work parties that go off the island?

3. What does Nairn suggest that outrages Sharpe?

4. Where do Harper and Sharpe go after several weeks on the island?

5. What does Sharpe notice about the enlistment process?

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