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

2. Who is one of the first officers to spot Richard Sharpe's potential?
(a) Colonel Price.
(b) The Duke of Wellington.
(c) Colonel Gudin.
(d) Napoleon.

3. For what does Caillou blame Gudin when they hear shots in the distance?
(a) Leaving the soldiers' wives behind.
(b) Coming into Irati from the North.
(c) Coming into Irati from the South.
(d) Bringing women along.

4. Who shoots Nicholls?
(a) Caillou.
(b) No one.
(c) A British officer by mistake.
(d) Gudin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is it until Christmas?

2. What is the Bernard and Judy Cornwell Foundation?

3. What does Picard believe about himself?

4. What does Cornwell say that characters sometimes do?

5. From what disaster are some of the men at the Fort at Ochagavia taking refuge?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Cornwell feel about writing Sharpe's Christmas, and why did he feel that way?

2. Why does Sharpe have hope the garrison will surrender, and what does the garrison have that Sharpe would like to take?

3. How does Nicholls feel about Sharpe and Harper? What does he ask them? What is Sharpe's response?

4. What is Gudin told about Maria and what is his response?

5. How do the French play into Sharpe's trick with wine barrels?

6. When does Sharpe think the French will arrive? What does he do for his men because of this?

7. What do the French do about the remaining barrels, and what is Sharpe facing from the south?

8. What does Sharpe and d'Alembord see through Sharpe's telescope?

9. What finally breaks up the French brigade's advance?

10. What does Gudin do after Caillou breaks the truce?

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