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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 do sailors like to grease ladders with as a practical joke?
(a) Oil.
(b) Lard.
(c) Butter.
(d) Soap.

2. What does Lord William read while the fighting takes place above him?
(a) Paradise Lost.
(b) The Odyssey.
(c) The Iliad.
(d) Dante's Inferno.

3. What does Sharpe say he would carve his way through just to get to Lady Grace?
(a) An army.
(b) A herd of goats.
(c) A battalion.
(d) A crowd of rioters.

4. What famous person dies in this section?
(a) Pitt.
(b) Chase.
(c) Wellesley.
(d) Nelson.

5. What does Sharpe say Lord William's nose looks like?
(a) A hawk's beak.
(b) A brass button.
(c) A ski slope.
(d) A pelican's beak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chase ask Collier to do in the hold?

2. What does Valliard tell Sharpe is his job?

3. Who does Braithwaite tell Sharpe he should kill?

4. What is Lord William writing about?

5. Who does Sharpe say had a bad habit of choosing the wrong side?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Captain Chase and Captain Montmorrin at towards each other during the fighting?

2. What does Braithwaite say to Sharpe in a effect to call a truce?

3. What are Lady Grace's thoughts on Braithwaite's death?

4. What are Lord Nelson's views on modesty?

5. What reason does Chase give for inviting Sharpe for dinner with Admiral Nelson?

6. What will be Coliier's involvement in the fighting?

7. What view does Nelson offer on battle tactics?

8. What is Chase's life like back in England?

9. How does Sharpe kill Valliard?

10. What does Lord William think of Braithwaite's letter?

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