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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ducos hoping for as he makes a last stand?
(a) Calvet will be willing to split the treasure and leave.
(b) Sharpe will be killed.
(c) The cannon will work.
(d) Help from the Cardinal.

2. Where does Frederickson go to find out information about Ducos?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Spain.

3. Into what has Ducos converted most of Napoleon's fortune?
(a) Silver.
(b) English pounds.
(c) Gemstones.
(d) Gold.

4. Why does Lucille write to Roland?
(a) To have Frederickson found.
(b) To file a complaint against Harper.
(c) To clear Sharpe's name.
(d) To ask for an investigator to return.

5. What do Frederickson and Harper do at Lucille's house?
(a) Play cards.
(b) Plan how to get Ducos.
(c) Woo Lucille.
(d) Make extensive repairs.

6. What does Sharpe's group plan to do?
(a) Kill Calvet.
(b) Wait for Calvet to get the money.
(c) Take the Cardinal as hostage.
(d) Stealthily invade Ducos' estate.

7. Where does Harper go when he leaves Sharpe?
(a) To Vienna.
(b) To Rome.
(c) To Ireland.
(d) To France.

8. What do Sharpe and his group do while the French are firing on Ducos' estate?
(a) Take out the perimeter guard.
(b) Watch from a hill above the estate.
(c) Penetrate deep into the building.
(d) Attack the Cardinal's men.

9. What is ironic about Lucille turning down Frederickson's proposal?
(a) She had hated Sharpe when she had first met him.
(b) She had flirted with him the first month he had been at her house.
(c) She had liked him so much when they had first met.
(d) He had harped on matrimony as being futile.

10. Why does Harper travel to London?
(a) To see his wife.
(b) To meet with d'Alembord and see Jane.
(c) To kill Jane.
(d) To get money for Sharpe.

11. What weapon does Sharpe fire at the Neapolitan soldiers?
(a) A sniper rifle.
(b) The grasshopper.
(c) Artillery.
(d) Harper's seven barrel gun.

12. For what does most of London society admire Rossendale?
(a) For his connections.
(b) For his education.
(c) For being handsome and charming.
(d) For his bravery in being with Jane.

13. Why does Napoleon send Calvet to the Kingdom of Naples?
(a) To kill Sharpe.
(b) To talk to the Earl there.
(c) To find Napoleon a better place for exile.
(d) To recover his treasure.

14. What type of work does Ducos do for France?
(a) He is one of Napoleon's advisors.
(b) He is in the intelligence service.
(c) He is a general.
(d) He is an accountant.

15. What does Ducos do to his forces?
(a) Fire half of them.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Tell all of them to leave.
(d) Hire more men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Sharpe, Frederickson, and Harper go to the Kingdom of Naples?

2. What news does Sharpe hear from Harper after Harper sees Jane?

3. How does Lucille feel when Sharpe leaves?

4. What do Sharpe and his group do at Ducos' estate?

5. What does d'Alembord notice about how Jane feels about Sharpe?

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