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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 does Picard say Gudin has become used to?
(a) The good life.
(b) Defeat.
(c) Being rescued.
(d) Hunger.

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

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

4. Why is General Picard disgruntled?
(a) His brigade is late.
(b) He lost several men in a battle.
(c) His wife is angry at him.
(d) His mistress left him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who commands the piquet on the south road?

2. How long is it until Christmas?

3. What has Sharpe found south of the village?

4. What is one question Bernard Cornwell is often asked about Richard Sharpe?

5. Where are Sharpe's riflemen hidden?

Short Essay Questions

1. With what types of troubles is Gudin plagued?

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

3. Where does Sharpe send his skirmishers? What is the result?

4. How does Sharpe give the French warning, and why does he warn them?

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

6. What has Sharpe been doing for the past ten years? Whom does he command? Why? When do Sharpe and his men march? What does Sharpe ignore?

7. What does Cornwell say about Sharpe's Christmas in the introduction?

8. What does Gudin think about when he thinks of India?

9. Why is Caillou angry at Gudin about the women, and why is Gudin walking?

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

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