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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What order is Sharpe given?
(a) To report his insubordination to the Duke of Wellington.
(b) To report the next day for court martial.
(c) To rejoin his old regiment.
(d) To withdraw from battle and consider himself subject to execution for disobeying a direct order under battle.

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

5. What order does Sharpe refuse to take to Halkett?
(a) That Halkett move East one mile.
(b) That Halkett stay in place in his square.
(c) That Halkett's men form a line.
(d) That Halkett retreat.

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

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

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

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

10. Who arrives at Quatre Bras with the British Light Cavalry?
(a) John Faringale.
(b) John Rossendale.
(c) The Baron von Helmeld.
(d) No one.

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

12. 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 regroups and marches towards Brussels.
(d) It is completely destroyed.

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

14. How many men has Napoleon gathered to his army in 107 days?
(a) 110,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 200,000.

15. What does Sharpe do before returning to Quartre Bras?
(a) Slap the Duchess's daughter.
(b) Insult Jane.
(c) Drink a bit too much ale.
(d) Challenge Rossendale to a duel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the British defend against the Cuirassiers?

2. Who does Sharpe wonder about atoning to for his insubordination?

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

4. About what is the Duke of Wellington worried?

5. Who is Lord John Rossendale?

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