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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 Lynch do to Weller's dog?
(a) Makes it leave the island.
(b) Crushes it with his boot.
(c) Feeds it scraps.
(d) Throws it into the water to drown.

2. What does Harper do?
(a) Runs.
(b) Refuses to participate.
(c) Goes to ground in the mud.
(d) Climbs a tree.

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

4. Who is Patrick Harper?
(a) The Sergeant who dies in Sharpe's arms in the last conflict.
(b) An Irishman who is charged with treason.
(c) Sharpe's Sergeant Major.
(d) Colonel Nairn's liaision to the 3rd Regiment.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are small detachments sent from time to time?

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

3. What do Sharpe and Jane do?

4. Where does Sharpe meet Jane Gibbons?

5. Why does Sharpe note about the medical certification of the recruits?

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 does Sergeant Carew at the second battalion depot tell Sharpe?

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

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

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

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

7. What does Sharpe do about the men following him?

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

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

10. How does Sharpe rescue Harper?

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