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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. Who, along with Harper, enjoys the crowds?
(a) Anne.
(b) Sharpe.
(c) Isabelle.
(d) Maggie Joyce.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are small detachments sent from time to time?

2. What does a day's worth of recruiting yield?

3. What do Harper and Sharpe do later that night?

4. What does Sharpe decide to let his enemies think?

5. Why does a crowd gather at the end of the play?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Sharpe presented at the royal gala, how does Sharpe present himself and how does the Prince feel about Sharpe?

2. With whom does Sharpe meet concerning the South Essex problems and what does he tell Sharpe?

3. Of what units does the South Essex consist and what is the function of each of those units? What seems to be the problem with one of the units?

4. What standard was at the royal gala and what did it have to do with Sharpe? What did the Prince have Sharpe do?

5. What does Sharpe wonder about as far as Simmerson's involvement with the second battalion? What is Sharpe's relation to Jane Gibbons?

6. Where is Sharpe sent on a work party and what does he take the time to do?

7. What is Havercamp like as a person, and what does he promise the recruits and how does he pay for the drinks he serves the recruits?

8. What do the recruits do for the next few days after Sharpe and Harper enlist and where are they taken?

9. Under what names do Sharpe and Harper enlist and who enlists with them?

10. What does Nairn suggest Sharpe should do and why?

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