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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where do Harper and Sharpe withdraw?
(a) The Prince of Orange.
(b) Quatre Bras.
(c) Belgium.
(d) Their devastated regiment.

2. Who arrives to drive off the French skirmishers?
(a) The 110th Sharpshooters Regiment.
(b) The Duke of Weston's cavalry.
(c) No one.
(d) Cavalry under the Prince of Orange.

3. To whom is a note about the French advance delivered?
(a) The King of Belgium.
(b) No one.
(c) General Dornberg.
(d) The Duke of Wellingham.

4. What does Napoleon do in the East?
(a) Withdraws his cavalry.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Attacks Blucher's Prussian army.
(d) Defeats the Dutch artillery.

5. Who accompanies Sharpe to Quatre Bras?
(a) An eighteen-year-old, Lieutenant Simon Doggett.
(b) A civilian guide.
(c) No one.
(d) A Belgium sharpshooter.

6. About what is the Duke of Wellington worried?
(a) His wife's pregnancy.
(b) His daughter's illness.
(c) Getting back to England.
(d) The quality and numbers of his troops.

7. What abates the Prince of York's excitement?
(a) The Dragoons capture the Prince.
(b) The first French attack.
(c) The French change direction and the Prince's troops do not get to fight.
(d) His new warhorse is killed almost immediately.

8. Who is the horseman identified as?
(a) Harper.
(b) Richard Sharpe.
(c) The Duke of Wellington.
(d) General Dornberg.

9. Who captures the 69th battalion's colours?
(a) The Hessians.
(b) The Cuirassiers.
(c) The 3rd French legion.
(d) The Hussars.

10. Why do the Belgian cavalry flee?
(a) They had belonged to the French cavalry the year previously.
(b) They secretly root for Napoleon's victory.
(c) They are afraid to attack the more experienced French cavalry.
(d) They do not like the Prince of Orange.

11. What does the Duke of Wellington order the Prince of Orange to do?
(a) To resign his position.
(b) To return to his headquarters immediately.
(c) To return to his headquarters after the ball.
(d) To find Sharpe for questioning.

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

13. What causes the most casualties to the Dragoons from the Prussians?
(a) Their sharpshooter brigade.
(b) Hidden cannons.
(c) The elite cavalry of the Prussian army.
(d) A ditch filled with pitch that they light.

14. Who joins the fray who Sharpe and Harper recognize?
(a) The Duke of Northampton's levy.
(b) The Duke of York's levy.
(c) The Prince of Wale's Own Volunteers.
(d) The 94th Riflemen Battalion.

15. What happens to the Dutch-Belgian guns and infantry?
(a) They are slaughtered almost to a man.
(b) They leave the battlefield in a blind panic.
(c) They confuse their orders and are not where they are supposed to be.
(d) They are flanked and surrender.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe order Doggett to do?

2. What happens to the 69th battalion?

3. Who loses all the ground he has captured?

4. Who does the Duke of Wellington hope will join his forces?

5. What must Sharpe do by the Prince of Orange's orders?

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