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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The First Day, Chapters 1 thru 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Sharpe and Doggett find a French battalion?
(a) Almost to Brussels.
(b) Near Quatre Bras.
(c) Near the village of Frasnes.
(d) They find no French.

2. What does the horseman's hat look like?
(a) It shows the scarlet, gold, and black cockade of the Netherlands.
(b) Like an English officer's hat.
(c) It is dressed with a band with the Russian colors.
(d) Like it has been shot.

3. Where is Napoleon Bonaparte as the Dragoons cross into Belgium?
(a) On Elba Island.
(b) About 10 miles south of the entry place.
(c) In Paris.
(d) In Russia.

4. What is the horseman attempting to do?
(a) Get close enough to Napoleon to assassinate him.
(b) Inform the allied headquarters if the French have indeed entered Belgium in force.
(c) Desert his post.
(d) Be accepted into the French ranks in order to spy.

5. How many of the Duke of Wellington's troops are reliable?
(a) About half.
(b) Only about a quarter of them.
(c) About 2/3 of them.
(d) Almost all of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many more rivers does Napoleon have to cross before reaching Brussels?

2. What does Sharpe order Doggett to do?

3. What does Bonaparte consider the enemy to be?

4. About what is the Duke of Wellington worried?

5. What do Sharpe and Rebecque draft in Chapter 5?

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