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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 do Ducos and his last men make a stand?
(a) In a sealed and reinforced room.
(b) In a tower behind the residence.
(c) On top of the front wall.
(d) In the basement.

2. Why does Napoleon send Calvet to the Kingdom of Naples?
(a) To find Napoleon a better place for exile.
(b) To kill Sharpe.
(c) To recover his treasure.
(d) To talk to the Earl there.

3. What does Sharpe tell Frederickson about Lucille?
(a) He left her pregnant.
(b) He never really got to know her.
(c) He loves her.
(d) She married a French count.

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

5. What does Ducos use to fire at the force chopping into his room?
(a) A sixteen pounder, heavy cannon.
(b) A machine gun.
(c) Artillery.
(d) A small cannon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon does Sharpe fire at the Neapolitan soldiers?

2. What is Ducos doing with Napoleon's old uniforms?

3. Why do Sharpe, Frederickson, and Harper go to the Kingdom of Naples?

4. How does Lucille feel about Frederickson's feelings for her?

5. What does Calvet suggest to Sharpe?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Sharpe solve the dilemma of the Cardinal's men around them?

4. How does Sharpe capture Ducos and what is the cost of that capture?

5. How do Calvet and Sharpe plan to avoid the Cardinal's men?

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

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

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

9. What is apparent when Jane sees Rossendale and how does their social circle feel about it?

10. What happens to Ducos in the Epilogue?

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