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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harper and Sharpe deposit with official agents?
(a) Some of the captured riches from LaFitte.
(b) Some of the captured riches from Vitoria.
(c) Some of the captured riches from Waterloo.
(d) Some of the captured riches from Brussels.

2. What does a day's worth of recruiting yield?
(a) 3 men.
(b) 1 man.
(c) 12 men.
(d) 6 men.

3. Who does Maggie Joyce send after Sharpe?
(a) An assassin.
(b) A young boy.
(c) A bouncer.
(d) A young girl.

4. What does Jane tell Sharpe happens to the trained enlisted men?
(a) They are sent as slaves to various parts of the world.
(b) They are used as Simmerson's personal levy.
(c) They go to the 1st battalion of South Essex regiment.
(d) They are auctioned off in companies to the highest bidder.

5. What does the person that Maggie Joyce sends give Sharpe?
(a) A pistol and a warning.
(b) A note from Lord Fenner.
(c) A sword.
(d) Some money.

6. What does Sharpe decide to do?
(a) Call upon the nobleman and ask for his assistance.
(b) Return back to France immediately.
(c) Travel posthaste to London.
(d) Decline the meeting with the nobleman.

7. What accompanies the work parties that go off the island?
(a) Unusually heavy guard.
(b) Girdwood.
(c) Lynch.
(d) Simmerson.

8. What does Sharpe and the other recruits do for the next few days?
(a) Drill and practice sword fighting.
(b) Get outfitted and ready to ship to France.
(c) March with the recruiter from town to town to enlist more men.
(d) Lie around while the recruiter finishes getting his quota.

9. Who are Dick Vaughn and Paddy O'Keefe?
(a) Two corporals with the recruiter.
(b) Two highway brigands who try to accost Harper and Sharpe.
(c) The aliases Sharpe and Harper assume as recruits.
(d) Two men who refuse to sign up at the last moment.

10. Where does Sharpe meet Jane Gibbons?
(a) At a formal dinner.
(b) At Simmerson's boathouse.
(c) While swimming in the ocean.
(d) In her uncle's orchards.

11. Whose estate do the recruits pass?
(a) None.
(b) Sir Lord Nelson.
(c) Sir Henry Simmerson.
(d) Sir Walter Weston.

12. What does Jane say she will leave in the boathouse?
(a) Food and money.
(b) A map.
(c) Her uncle's account books.
(d) A gun.

13. With whom do Harper and Shapre meet up?
(a) Lord Fenner.
(b) Maggie Joyce.
(c) Paddy O'Keefe.
(d) Sergeant Horatio Havercamp.

14. What is Chelmsford?
(a) Where the last major battle of the Napoleonic War is fought.
(b) Where Sharpe is born.
(c) Where Patrick Harper was born.
(d) The depot of the second battalion.

15. Where is the opening set?
(a) France.
(b) Spain.
(c) Russia.
(d) Near Brussels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is presented as slightly confused but enthusiastic about military matters?

2. What is odd about Chelmsford?

3. What does the person who is asked about the second battalion say?

4. How is Sharpe when he leaves Maggie Joyce?

5. Who escapes while Sharpe is talking with Jane?

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