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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the 69th battalion?
(a) It reforms with another battalion and they become the 72nd battalion.
(b) It captures Quatre Bras.
(c) It is completely destroyed.
(d) It regroups and marches towards Brussels.

2. What dinner do Harper and Sharpe share?
(a) Roasted pig.
(b) Beef jerky.
(c) Roasted horse meat.
(d) Hard biscuits and dried pork.

3. What does Bonaparte consider the enemy to be?
(a) Incompetent.
(b) Greatly outnumbered.
(c) Highly trained.
(d) English scum and their Prussian hirelings.

4. Who is Baron Jean de Constant Rebecque?
(a) Napoleon's chief of staff.
(b) The leader of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade.
(c) The Prince of Wales' chief of staff.
(d) The Prince of Orange's chief of staff.

5. What has Wellington promised Blucher?
(a) To send the Prince of Orange back to the reserves.
(b) To lend him Sharpe if necessary.
(c) To have the Dragoons in rout by the end of the day.
(d) Wellington will come to Blucher's aid unless he himself is attacked at the crossroads.

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

7. Why is the Prince of Orange enraged?
(a) Because his reserve war horse has also been killed.
(b) Because his infantry collapse on the first attack and his cavalry is routed by the French lancers.
(c) Because the Duke of Wellington snubs him.
(d) Because he thinks he should lead a charge against the Cuirassiers.

8. Who appears on the battle scene just in the nick of time?
(a) The 110th Riflemen Brigade led by Sharpe.
(b) The green-jacketed riflemen of the Duke of Welilngton's troops.
(c) The Prince of Blucher's troops.
(d) No one.

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

10. What persists towards the East from where Sharpe and Harper are?
(a) The sounds of battle between the Prussians and French.
(b) Grass fires.
(c) Flocks of crows and ravens circling.
(d) A heavy fog.

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

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

13. What is the Duchess of Richmond preparing to give?
(a) A sumptuous ball in a large rented house.
(b) A recital.
(c) A report of the French invasion to the Belgium king.
(d) A dinner party.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Duchess apprehensive of Rossendale being at her home?

2. How does the Duke of Wellington treat the Prince of Orange?

3. What happens to Saxe-Weimar's men?

4. How do the British defend against the Cuirassiers?

5. Upon whose staff is the horseman?

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