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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 Jane say she will leave in the boathouse?
(a) Food and money.
(b) A gun.
(c) Her uncle's account books.
(d) A map.

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

3. Where are they recruits finally led?
(a) To a military base near London.
(b) To a large island accessed by a single bridge.
(c) To the docks in Binghampton.
(d) To the docks at Dover.

4. What does Harper and Sharpe capture in the battle Sharpe is describing?
(a) A French Imperial Eagle.
(b) General Lafitte.
(c) Napoleon's nephew.
(d) The commander of the Dragoons.

5. Who does Sharpe meet that evening?
(a) Sir Drakeson.
(b) Anne Camoynes.
(c) The Dowager Queen.
(d) Lucy Basehall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is failing at his basic tasks?

2. Where is the second battalion of Sharpe's regiment?

3. What does Nairn think Sharpe should do?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How does Sharpe rescue Harper?

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

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

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

8. What happens when Marriott attempts to escape?

9. 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?

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

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