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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom is the telescope inscribed through which Sharpe is looking?
(a) Russeau.
(b) Napoleon.
(c) Gudin.
(d) The King of Spain.

2. Picard thinks ____________ are on the slopes.
(a) The Spanish elite forces.
(b) No forces.
(c) The British.
(d) Partisans.

3. What are Sharpe and the other man trying to do?
(a) Kill a bullock.
(b) Trap a badger.
(c) Trap a possom.
(d) Kill a French sentry.

4. Why won't Gudin ride his horse?
(a) The horse is in an advanced stage of pregnancy.
(b) The horse is lame.
(c) The horse is ill.
(d) His lieutenant is ill and riding the horse.

5. What does Cornwell say that characters sometimes do?
(a) Live long, peaceful lives after intense fighting as young adults.
(b) Take a life of their own.
(c) Die when it seems unnecessary.
(d) Evolve into someone different.

6. What does Sharpe think would make a nice Christmas present for his battalion?
(a) More women in the area.
(b) The quick surrender of the French.
(c) A French Eagle.
(d) The new muskets the French are carrying.

7. What does Caillou know Gudin will do?
(a) Keep his Eagle at any cost.
(b) Agree to leave Spain without their weapons.
(c) Waste his men's lives.
(d) Surrender.

8. What does Cornwell say Sharpe is determined not to lose in Sharpe's Ransom?
(a) His half brother.
(b) The gold he hid in a French monastery after Waterloo.
(c) The only contact he has for finding his daughter.
(d) A woman Sharpe's meets in a previous story.

9. What does Cornwell say exists to increase awareness of soldiers who fought in the early 19th century?
(a) The Soldiers' Scrapbook.
(b) Sharpe's Legacy Society.
(c) Sharpe Appreciation Society.
(d) The Art of War Society.

10. Who granted Gudin his eagle?
(a) No one.
(b) It is a griffon, not an eagle.
(c) Napoleon.
(d) He found it.

11. How long has Colonel Jean Gudin been in his present command?
(a) 4 years.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 1 year.

12. Where are Sharpe's riflemen hidden?
(a) In Irati.
(b) Among the rocks above the barrels.
(c) In trenches along the west side of the road.
(d) In a stand of trees.

13. What does Gudin have to leave behind when a wagon breaks down?
(a) His sword collection.
(b) His dried flower collection.
(c) His books.
(d) His musical instruments.

14. To what does Caillou object?
(a) Gudin commanding the forces.
(b) Women and children coming along with the French army.
(c) Gudin leaving the Eagle.
(d) Sharpe going undercover.

15. What does Sharpe look for when he walks north?
(a) Spanish spies.
(b) Frogs.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) A woman who ran off with his pistol.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Gudin pray?

2. At what does the French brigade fire?

3. What does D'Alembord think of Sharpe?

4. What does Sharpe order from Irati for his men?

5. What is the Bernard and Judy Cornwell Foundation?

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