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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Lucille's gun so effective?
(a) She shoots Sharpe at the site of an old wound.
(b) It is her brother's large pistol.
(c) It is loaded with multiple projectiles.
(d) She shoots at her target point blank.

2. What does Calvet realize about extracting Ducos?
(a) It will be very easy.
(b) It won't be necessary.
(c) It will be very difficult.
(d) It won't be done legally.

3. What does Lucille wonder about Sharpe?
(a) How he survived the military.
(b) Whether he will marry her.
(c) Why the British have arrested him.
(d) How anyone could love a man like him.

4. Why does Lucille write to Roland?
(a) To ask for an investigator to return.
(b) To file a complaint against Harper.
(c) To have Frederickson found.
(d) To clear Sharpe's name.

5. Why do Calvet and Sharpe decide to trust each other?
(a) They like each other personally.
(b) They are both officers.
(c) They have both acted honorably during earlier confrontations.
(d) They are both career military men.

6. To what does Sharpe appeal in his plan to get free of the villa?
(a) The Cardinal's religion.
(b) The soldiers' superstitions.
(c) The soldiers' greed.
(d) Amnesty of a neutral country.

7. How do Sharpe and Calvet plan to escape?
(a) In the rocky hills above the city.
(b) Through the alley behind the residence.
(c) In a boat.
(d) Through the woods.

8. How does Sharpe feel about Lucille's estate?
(a) He thinks it's ugly.
(b) He admires it.
(c) He is indifferent.
(d) He hates it and wants to get home.

9. Why does Sharpe remain in France?
(a) He has heard about Jane and doesn't want to go home.
(b) He is in prison.
(c) He is too wounded to travel.
(d) He has been assigned there.

10. What is the final outcome of the battle at Ducos' villa?
(a) The English and French forces take the Cardinal hostage and leave.
(b) The English and French forces have to fight their way out.
(c) The English and French forces escape.
(d) The English and French forces are arrested.

11. What is ironic about Lucille turning down Frederickson's proposal?
(a) She had flirted with him the first month he had been at her house.
(b) He had harped on matrimony as being futile.
(c) She had hated Sharpe when she had first met him.
(d) She had liked him so much when they had first met.

12. What does d'Alembord notice about Jane when he goes to see her in Chapter 10?
(a) That she is sick.
(b) That she is pregnant.
(c) The marked change in her.
(d) That she has moved a lover into her house.

13. What does Ducos do to his forces?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Fire half of them.
(c) Tell all of them to leave.
(d) Hire more men.

14. What does Sharpe tell Frederickson about Lucille?
(a) He loves her.
(b) She married a French count.
(c) He never really got to know her.
(d) He left her pregnant.

15. What does most of London society believe Sharpe will do with Jane upon his return?
(a) Beat her.
(b) Kill her.
(c) Get her pregnant.
(d) Discard her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of repercussions follow Sharpe taking Ducos out of Naples?

2. What is Ducos hoping for as he makes a last stand?

3. How do Lucille and Sharpe feel towards each other by the end of Chapter 11?

4. Where does Frederickson go to find out information about Ducos?

5. Into what has Ducos converted most of Napoleon's fortune?

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