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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. Why is the Duchess apprehensive of Rossendale being at her home?
(a) She is not apprehensive.
(b) Because he would be disobeying orders to come there.
(c) Because Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe will be there and Rossendale's mistress is Sharpe's unfaithful wife, Jane.
(d) Because Napoleon will kill her if he finds out.

2. What do Sharpe and Rebecque draft in Chapter 5?
(a) A herd of horses for their cavalry.
(b) An order for Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, ostensibly from the Prince of Orange.
(c) A letter releasing Rossendale from service.
(d) A group of Belgium farmers.

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

4. What is given to the general of the French dragoons in Charleroi?
(a) A map showing the English gun emplacements.
(b) A 21-gun salute.
(c) A bunch of violets.
(d) Misleading information.

5. Who is Prince William of Orange?
(a) The only experienced commander in the English army.
(b) The Duke and heir to the throne of Germany.
(c) The Duke and heir to the throne of England.
(d) The Duke and heir to the throne of Netherlands.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the horseman identified as?

2. How might the pace of the Prussian Major who is taking news to Brussels be described?

3. How are the French Dragoons received by the Belgium people?

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

5. What does the Duke of Wellington order the Prince of Orange to do?

(see the answer key)

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