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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 does Sharpe tell Jane?
(a) That Harper is there with Sharpe.
(b) Why he is enlisted and how he plans to escape.
(c) That he wants her to come with him.
(d) That her uncle is deeply involved in fraudulent practices.

2. Who is summoned to account for the missing battalion recruits?
(a) Harper.
(b) Girdwood.
(c) Lord Fenner.
(d) No one.

3. Where do Harper and Sharpe go after several weeks on the island?
(a) Back to France.
(b) On leave.
(c) To clear weeds around the waterways of Simmerson's house.
(d) To bivouac.

4. What does Lynch do to Marriott?
(a) Tongue lashes him.
(b) Murders him.
(c) Gives him 30 lashes.
(d) Beats him.

5. What does the person that Maggie Joyce sends give Sharpe?
(a) Some money.
(b) A sword.
(c) A note from Lord Fenner.
(d) A pistol and a warning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the owner of the bar teach Sharpe?

2. What does Jane say she will leave in the boathouse?

3. How does Jane react?

4. What does Sharpe give Maggie?

5. Who is Lord Simon Fenner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sharpe give Maggie and why?

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

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

4. 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?

5. Why does Sharpe walk to a poor rookery? What is Sharpe's connection to it?

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

7. What does Anne tell Fenner and why?

8. What does Lord Fenner suggests should be done about the South Essex's trouble?

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

10. 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?

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