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

2. What does Calvet suggest to Sharpe?
(a) That Napoleon can clear Sharpe's name.
(b) That Sharpe return to London.
(c) A joint operation.
(d) To wait for Calvet to bring out Ducos.

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

4. What does Roland send to the exiled Napoleon?
(a) A dropping of the charges against Sharpe.
(b) Sharpe's location.
(c) Ducos' location.
(d) The letter from Lucille.

5. What are the similarities between Jane and Sharpe's new lovers?
(a) They are both well educated and rich.
(b) They are both destitute but titled.
(c) They are both French.
(d) They both are very wealthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sharpe feel about Lucille's estate?

2. How do Lucille and Sharpe feel towards each other by the end of Chapter 11?

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

4. What does Ducos do to his forces?

5. For what does Ducos stand trial?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the maneuvers at Ducos' estate turn out as far as Ducos' men are concerned?

2. What do Sharpe and his group do at Ducos' estate while the French are firing on it?

3. What does Calvet suggest to Sharpe and his group and why? What do they do after agreeing on a plan?

4. Why did Lucille's gun wound Sharpe so badly and what is involved for him because of that?

5. How does Frederickson feel about Lucille, what does Sharpe suggest and what happens when he follows Sharpe's suggestion?

6. What does Frederickson do when he leaves the Lassan estate, what does Sharpe do after he leaves? What happens between Sharpe and Lucille?

7. What does d'Alembord urge Jane to do, what is her response and how does he feel about that response?

8. What is the similarity between Jane's affair and Sharpe's affair?

9. Describe the fight at Ducos' defensive room.

10. Where does Ducos remain and what does he do while there?

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