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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. From where did Sharpe get his uniform pants?
(a) The military issued them.
(b) His wife, for his birthday.
(c) A colonel of Napoleon's Imperial guard.
(d) His mother bought them.

2. What is Harper thinking about as they travel to Bordeaux?
(a) Where his brother is in France.
(b) How to get out of the army.
(c) How he is going to stay near Sharpe.
(d) What his wife is doing.

3. Where are Sharpe and Harper standing at the opening of the novel?
(a) In the forest.
(b) On a sandy beach.
(c) On a hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
(d) On the deck of a ship.

4. What does Sharpe ask of the man in question #86?
(a) To find Ducos.
(b) To go with him to Teste de Buch.
(c) To send word to his wife.
(d) To find Henri Lassan.

5. With whom does Jane begin to associate in London?
(a) A poor but titled widow.
(b) A man from her home town.
(c) Her sister's friends.
(d) John Richardson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ducos go in Chapter 9?

2. Where is Henri stationed at the end of the war?

3. What does Napoleon do right before the Battle of Toulouse?

4. With what is the port of St. Jean de Luz filled?

5. What do Henri and Lucille do often when together?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe Henri Lassan's sister.

6. Where do Nairn's troops participate in the battle at Toulouse and why and where do they then move?

7. What does Henri do with his sister, Lucille?

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

9. How does the assault of Nairn's troops end?

10. What type of situation does Sharpe's group find at Bordeaux?

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