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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 Sergeant does Ducos ask to help him steal Napoleon's treasure?
(a) Sergeant Challon.
(b) Sergeant Harper.
(c) Sergeant Soult.
(d) Sergeant Calvert.

2. What does Henri Lassan do after the war ends?
(a) Marries.
(b) Opens a law firm.
(c) Returns home.
(d) Becomes a priest.

3. Where does Fredrickson lose an eye?
(a) At Teste de Buch.
(b) In a battle in Spain.
(c) At the battle of Waterloo.
(d) In Paris.

4. What is the month and year in which this book begins?
(a) March, 1814.
(b) May, 1815.
(c) September, 1814.
(d) February, 1819.

5. What does Sharpe receive from his financial agent as he is on the way to Bordeaux?
(a) A package.
(b) A telegram.
(c) A letter.
(d) A cable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What main types of French people are wandering Bordeaux?

2. How do Sharpe, Harper and Frederickson celebrate the event in question # 47?

3. Where does Ducos go in Chapter 9?

4. What type of weapon does Bampfylde chose for his duel with Sharpe?

5. Who helps Sharpe and Frederickson with their plan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Sharpe and Frederickson find at the guard post in Bordeaux?

2. What does Sharpe and his friends do after the battle of Toulouse?

3. How does Sharpe respond to Jane's demands in the Prologue?

4. What does Soult do with Toulouse following the British assault?

5. Of what does Part I in this novel consist and what does Part I serve to do in the novel's narrative arc?

6. Who has set up the charges against Sharpe and Frederickson and what do the British authorities know?

7. What is Sharpe's and Frederickson's plan for leaving Bordeaux?

8. What orders do Sharpe, Frederickson, and Harper receive?

9. What does Jane demand of Sharpe in the Prologue?

10. Describe Henri Lassan's sister.

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