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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 type of work does Ducos do for France?
(a) He is an accountant.
(b) He is a general.
(c) He is one of Napoleon's advisors.
(d) He is in the intelligence service.

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

3. What does d'Alembord notice about how Jane feels about Sharpe?
(a) She is angry at him.
(b) She is missing him too much.
(c) She is unconcerned about him.
(d) She hates him.

4. Why is Lucille's gun so effective?
(a) It is her brother's large pistol.
(b) It is loaded with multiple projectiles.
(c) She shoots Sharpe at the site of an old wound.
(d) She shoots at her target point blank.

5. Of what does d'Alembord warn Harper?
(a) That his wife is also cheating on him.
(b) About the changes in Jane.
(c) About Rossendale.
(d) About stirring up too much trouble.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what season does Sharpe stay at Lucille's while recuperating?

2. What type of cannon does Ducos purchase for his location?

3. Into what has Ducos converted most of Napoleon's fortune?

4. What news does Sharpe hear from Harper after Harper sees Jane?

5. What do Sharpe and his group do at Ducos' estate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Frederickson do about Lucille and her opinion of Sharpe? What do he and Harper do while Sharpe is recovering and how does Sharpe feel about where he is? What does Lucille think of Sharpe?

3. Describe the fight at Ducos' defensive room.

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

5. What does d'Alembord do in London as far as Jane is concerned in Chapter 10? How does Jane appear to him?

6. How does Sharpe feel about his affair with Lucille in view of his marriage to Jane?

7. Why does Lucille write to Roland?

8. What does Calvet do in Naples first?

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

10. Where does Frederickson go to find Ducos and how does that work out?

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