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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Sharpe and the others have to go to get into Ducos' room?
(a) The room next door.
(b) The basement.
(c) The stream in the garden.
(d) The attic.

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

3. For what does most of London society admire Rossendale?
(a) For his connections.
(b) For his bravery in being with Jane.
(c) For being handsome and charming.
(d) For his education.

4. What is Ducos' punishment?
(a) Twenty years in prison.
(b) Being shot dead.
(c) Paying back twice what he stole.
(d) Exile from France.

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

6. What is Ducos hoping for as he makes a last stand?
(a) Sharpe will be killed.
(b) Help from the Cardinal.
(c) Calvet will be willing to split the treasure and leave.
(d) The cannon will work.

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

8. Into what has Ducos converted most of Napoleon's fortune?
(a) Silver.
(b) Gemstones.
(c) English pounds.
(d) Gold.

9. For what does Ducos stand trial?
(a) Spying.
(b) Theft.
(c) Murder.
(d) Treason.

10. What do Sharpe and his group have to negotiate in order to escape?
(a) A steep cliff.
(b) The city sewers.
(c) A marshy swamp.
(d) A moat.

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

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

13. Why do Sharpe, Frederickson, and Harper go to the Kingdom of Naples?
(a) For a vacation after the war.
(b) To reconnoiter Ducos' estate.
(c) To meet with Roland.
(d) To see General Calvet.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucille do when Frederickson proposes marriage?

2. What does the Cardinal plan to do about Calvet?

3. Of what does d'Alembord warn Harper?

4. What happens to the charges against Sharpe and Frederickson?

5. Where does Frederickson say he'd like to visit once his name is cleared?

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