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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. What is the month and year at the opening of Sharpe's Regiment?
(a) December, 1824.
(b) June, 1813.
(c) December, 1814.
(d) June, 1824.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jane Gibbons?

2. Whose estate do the recruits pass?

3. Who does Maggie Joyce send after Sharpe?

4. What does Sharpe decide to do?

5. Where is the opening set?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sharpe think of the battle that ended immediately proceeding the start of this novel and how did the battle come out for the English?

2. Where does Sharpe meet Jane Gibbons when at Simmerson and what do they do?

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

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

5. What does Sharpe decide is the best course of action following his encounter in the city? How do he and Harper live?

6. What happens when Marriott attempts to escape?

7. What happens that makes Sharpe believe he can straighten out the problem with the second battalion?

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

9. How were the recruits trained initially and what other work did they do?

10. What does Sergeant Carew at the second battalion depot tell Sharpe?

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