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

2. What is the recruiter like who they encounter?
(a) Likeable and persuasive.
(b) Businesslike.
(c) Hostile.
(d) Boorish.

3. Why are Sharpe and Harper visiting small English towns?
(a) Looking for the 2nd battalion recruiters.
(b) So they won't be recognized.
(c) To check their defenses in case Napoleon carries out his threatened invasion.
(d) Trying to recruit for the 1st battalion.

4. Who owns the bar where Sharpe goes?
(a) Jessica Strong.
(b) Isabell Harper.
(c) Anne Camoynes.
(d) Maggie Joyce.

5. Who, along with Harper, enjoys the crowds?
(a) Maggie Joyce.
(b) Isabelle.
(c) Sharpe.
(d) Anne.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Weller and Marriott?

2. Where does Harper and Sharpe go?

3. What does Harper and Sharpe capture in the battle Sharpe is describing?

4. Who is deeply in debt to Lord Fenner?

5. What does Sharpe observe while he is off the island?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sharpe walk to a poor rookery? What is Sharpe's connection to it?

2. Of what units does the South Essex consist and what is the function of each of those units? What seems to be the problem with one of the units?

3. What does Anne tell Fenner and why?

4. What does Jane tell him about the system for the recruits there and what does she say she will do?

5. What does Sergeant Carew at the second battalion depot tell Sharpe?

6. Where does Sharpe meet Jane Gibbons when at Simmerson and what do they do?

7. Where is Sharpe sent on a work party and what does he take the time to do?

8. Under what names do Sharpe and Harper enlist and who enlists with them?

9. How were the recruits trained initially and what other work did they do?

10. How does Sharpe rescue Harper?

(see the answer keys)

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