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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does d'Alembord notice about how Jane feels about Sharpe?
(a) She is angry at him.
(b) She is unconcerned about him.
(c) She hates him.
(d) She is missing him too much.

3. What almost happens to Harper when he goes by Jane's house?
(a) Rossendale almost shoots him.
(b) Jane slaps him.
(c) Jane almost shoots him.
(d) He is nearly trampled under by Rossendale's horses.

4. Where do Ducos and his last men make a stand?
(a) In a tower behind the residence.
(b) On top of the front wall.
(c) In a sealed and reinforced room.
(d) In the basement.

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

6. What type of cannon does Ducos purchase for his location?
(a) An eight pounder.
(b) A split shot multiball.
(c) A grasshopper.
(d) A double barrel.

7. Who gives Ducos's address to Frederickson?
(a) An Imperial Guard.
(b) An optician.
(c) A physician.
(d) A palace guard.

8. Where does Ducos hide when Sharpe and the others breach the room?
(a) On the balcony.
(b) Behind a curtain.
(c) Behind the door.
(d) Under the desk.

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

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

11. In what season does Sharpe stay at Lucille's while recuperating?
(a) Fall.
(b) Spring.
(c) Summer.
(d) Winter.

12. What does d'Alembord urge Jane to do?
(a) Ask Rossendale to intervene for Sharpe.
(b) Clean up her house.
(c) Go to France to be with Sharpe.
(d) Move into a place by herself.

13. Of what does d'Alembord warn Harper?
(a) About the changes in Jane.
(b) About stirring up too much trouble.
(c) That his wife is also cheating on him.
(d) About Rossendale.

14. What is Ducos doing with Napoleon's old uniforms?
(a) Parading around in them.
(b) Making his men wear them.
(c) Stringing them up like flags.
(d) Burning them.

15. What does Sharpe seek when he leaves Lucille's estate?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Peace.
(c) A better physician.
(d) Restoring his honor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sharpe remain in France?

2. What weapon does Sharpe fire at the Neapolitan soldiers?

3. What does Lucille do when Frederickson proposes marriage?

4. How does Lucille feel when Sharpe leaves?

5. To where do Sharpe, Frederickson, and Harper return?

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