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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 has been determined about the second battalion of which Sharpe is a part?
(a) It will receive a unit citation.
(b) It needs to release about 10 percent of its men who have fulfilled their contract.
(c) It needs a rotation home.
(d) It is not combat effective.

2. Who escapes while Sharpe is talking with Jane?
(a) Marriott.
(b) Harper.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Merrel.

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

4. What does one of the men following Sharpe tell him?
(a) That he was hired by Sharpe's ex-wife to kill him.
(b) The man refuses to talk.
(c) That he was supposed to just follow Sharpe.
(d) That he was hired by a soldier to kill Sharpe.

5. What does Girdwood ban from the group hunting Harper?
(a) Bayonets.
(b) Any weapon but sabers.
(c) Axes.
(d) Sabers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Dick Vaughn and Paddy O'Keefe?

2. What does the person who is asked about the second battalion say?

3. What does Harper and Sharpe deposit with official agents?

4. Who is failing at his basic tasks?

5. What is the play about that Sharpe and Harper attend?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when Sharpe asks the Prince about the second battalion?

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

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

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

6. What does Anne tell Fenner and why?

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

8. 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?

9. How does Sharpe rescue Harper?

10. 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?

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