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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 map.
(c) A gun.
(d) Her uncle's account books.

2. What does Girdwood decide to do about Harper?
(a) Shoot him.
(b) Hang him.
(c) Hunt him like he is game.
(d) Put him in stocks for a week.

3. With whom do Harper and Shapre meet up?
(a) Lord Fenner.
(b) Paddy O'Keefe.
(c) Sergeant Horatio Havercamp.
(d) Maggie Joyce.

4. What does Sharpe do after leaving the state function?
(a) Start off to find the 2nd battalion.
(b) Meet up with Lt. Col. Girdwood.
(c) Go to sleep.
(d) Have a sexual liaision with a beautiful woman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lord Simon Fenner?

2. How are the recruits documented?

3. Who does Sharpe meet that evening?

4. Who is Lieutenant Colonel Girdwood?

5. How does Jane react?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe John Lynch, the training sergeant and his particular dislike.

2. What does Jane tell him about the system for the recruits there and what does she say she will do?

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

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

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

6. How does Sharpe rescue Harper?

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

8. What does Anne tell Fenner and why?

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