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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of repercussions follow Sharpe taking Ducos out of Naples?
(a) He is reprimanded.
(b) Naples declares war on England and France.
(c) None.
(d) He has to write an apology to the Cardinal.

2. What type of behavior is Ducos beginning to exhibit?
(a) Happy.
(b) Excited.
(c) Indifferent to the world.
(d) Paranoid and eccentric.

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

4. What is one of the reasons that leads Sharpe to believe Jane might be leaving him?
(a) She has filed divorce papers.
(b) She has not written him any letters.
(c) She has sent him only a little money.
(d) She has written him but talks mostly of Rossendale.

5. How does Jane feel while waiting for Sharpe to return?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Happy.
(c) Angry.
(d) Afraid.

6. What type of work does Ducos do for France?
(a) He is one of Napoleon's advisors.
(b) He is in the intelligence service.
(c) He is an accountant.
(d) He is a general.

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

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

9. What does Lucille tell her doctor about her state of being?
(a) She has hurt her back.
(b) She is terribly depressed.
(c) She is carrying Sharpe's child.
(d) She has a hard time walking.

10. What does the Cardinal plan to do about Calvet?
(a) Kill him.
(b) Intercept him and the money.
(c) Negotiate with him.
(d) Arrest him.

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

12. What does Calvet gather up before they leave the villa?
(a) The rest of Napoleon's treasure.
(b) All the gold in the room.
(c) All of Ducos' men.
(d) All of his men.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What news does Sharpe hear from Harper after Harper sees Jane?

2. For what does most of London society admire Rossendale?

3. How does Lucille feel when Sharpe leaves?

4. What does Lucille do when Frederickson proposes marriage?

5. How does Lucille feel about Frederickson's feelings for her?

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