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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. Who does Lucille say will want to come in for food and wine?
(a) Father Defoy.
(b) The boys.
(c) The choir.
(d) No one.

2. What does Challon put under his arm?
(a) His clothes.
(b) His pistol.
(c) Patrick.
(d) Nothing.

3. What is Sharpe learning to love?
(a) The farm where he and Lucille are living.
(b) Lucille's son by her first husband.
(c) Normandy.
(d) Lucille's daughter by her first husband.

4. What does Sharpe say when he pulls the hatch in the attic?
(a) It's time to go to war.
(b) He tells Malan to signal the singers.
(c) He says he's going to kill some men.
(d) He tells Malan to wait there.

5. What does Lucille deliberately do as she is gathering the wash?
(a) Motions to her daughter to leave.
(b) Sways her hips.
(c) Motions to her son to leave.
(d) Drops a handkerchief.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lucille know Sharpe is playing a game with the men?

2. What does Lubecque order Sharpe to do?

3. What does Sharpe notice is rusted?

4. Who appears on the road above the farm?

5. Whom does Father Defoy embarrass publicly?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sharpe deal with the three men who are with him?

2. How do Sharpe and Malan get into Lucille's house?

3. What does Lucille hope about Sharpe, and how does she feel about leaving her home?

4. Who pushes their way into the house while Sharpe is gone, and what do they do and say?

5. What does Challon do while Lucille puts Patrick to bed? What does Lorcet find in Sharpe's accounts?

6. What does Sharpe offer Gudin and what is Gudin's reply?

7. What does Picard hear as he thinks about his loss to Sharpe and what do he and Santon think it is?

8. Why is Sharpe in Normandy, and what does he think about when he holds his rifle?

9. What does Father Defoy announce in church? How does the widow Malan feel about the announcement?

10. What does Hagman have to say about Maria and her baby?

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