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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. What month of the year is it when the story opens?
(a) December.
(b) September.
(c) April.
(d) June.

2. Upon whose staff is the horseman?
(a) The Prince of Orange.
(b) The Prince of Wales.
(c) No one's.
(d) The Prince of Belgium.

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

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

5. How might the pace of the Prussian Major who is taking news to Brussels be described?
(a) Slow through neccessity.
(b) Stalled.
(c) Irresponsibly leisurely.
(d) Rapid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one group that is part of the Duke of Wellington's troops?

2. What causes the most casualties to the Dragoons from the Prussians?

3. To whom is a note about the French advance delivered?

4. Where is the lone horseman approaching at the opening of chapter 3?

5. About what is the Duke of Wellington worried?

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