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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. How do Sharpe and Frederickson enter the Château Lassan?
(a) The office window.
(b) Through the front door.
(c) The back door into the kitchen.
(d) An upstairs balcony.

2. What nationality is Harper?
(a) Scottish.
(b) Irish.
(c) English.
(d) American.

3. How does Sharpe act upon being told the charges?
(a) Calm.
(b) Sarcastic.
(c) Talkative.
(d) Flustered and argumentative.

4. Why do Nairn's forces voluntarily reposition themselves when fighting at Toulouse?
(a) To help in an organized retreat.
(b) To assault a central strong point in the line.
(c) To save Sharpe's forces.
(d) To take down the Imperial Guard.

5. Chapter 6 recounts the lengthy history of Henri Lassan's progenitors and their role in overseeing Château Lassan. Based on the previous sentence, what might progenitors mean?
(a) Estate managers.
(b) Ancestors.
(c) People involved with one's grandparents.
(d) A group of servants.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Sharpe, Frederickson and Harper go when they leave Bordeaux?

2. What is the month and year in which this book begins?

3. How does Frederickson act after being told the charges?

4. In what role does Harper join Sharpe and Frederickson?

5. What is thinning the ranks of the British forces in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Jane doing in London while Sharpe is still in France? What happens to her because of this?

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

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

4. What do Sharpe and Frederickson decide to do and how does Harper help?

5. What does the man Napoleon enlists for help actually do and why?

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

7. What do the three friends discuss in Chapter 1 and for what does Fredrickson ridicule Sharpe and the other friend?

8. What does Peter d'Alembord do with Shape and his companions?

9. What does Henri Lassan do after the war?

10. To what company is Frederickson attached, what is Sharpe's position in that company and who else of Sharpe's acquaintance joins the company? What event does this enable?

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