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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. How does Sharpe get the chimney soot off him?
(a) He does not worry about the soot and leaves the house while still dirty.
(b) Dunking in the rain barrel.
(c) He has no soot on him.
(d) Bathing in Astrid's room.

2. What does Sharpe have to do before dressing?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Steal some clothing.
(c) Wash.
(d) Find his other clothing.

3. What does Sharpe do as he is fleeing the scene of the murder he committed?
(a) Shoots into the air.
(b) Throws lit pieces of firewood at the wood buildings.
(c) Yells for the town guard.
(d) Checks to see that he is not being followed.

4. Where are Willsen and Lavisser going together in several days?
(a) Madrid.
(b) Brest.
(c) Baveria.
(d) Copenhagen.

5. In what does Sharpe say he is interested?
(a) Buying some contraband absinthe.
(b) Finding a protitute he used to know.
(c) Buying a servant.
(d) Purchasing young girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baird do when Sharpe starts to cry?

2. What does Lavisser tell Sharpe and Barker to do once that have made landfall?

3. What does Sharpe ask his childhood friend?

4. Where does Lavisser enter the carriage in which Sharpe and Baird are riding?

5. What has Baird heard about Sharpe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Baird want of Sharpe?

2. Describe Sharpe and Baird's initial conversation.

3. Why is Sharpe in his present circumstances?

4. How does Sharpe come to be Skovaard's protector?

5. What does Pumphrey say to Sharpe in private?

6. Describe Sharpe's encounter with Hocking when Hocking brings Sharpe a young girl.

7. What does Captain Dunnett announce to his troops concerning stealing from the Danes. and who appears to have already done so?

8. Where does Sharpe find Astrid and what does he do?

9. How does Sharpe escape confinement and what frightens him about his escape means?

10. Who does Sharpe see when waiting on Hocking and what do they talk about?

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