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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe order Doggett to do?
(a) To get to Brussels to report to the Duke of Wellington.
(b) To return to Quatre Bras to inform Saxe-Weimar.
(c) To disguise himself as a Belgium peasant.
(d) To go around to one side of the force as Sharpe goes to the other.

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

3. Why do the Prince of Orange's men refuse to follow him to attack the French cannon?
(a) They have to ride through a grass fire to get there.
(b) The mastiffs are ringed around the cannons.
(c) A brigade of French light cavalry has appeared.
(d) There are several smaller cannons trained on them.

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

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

6. How old is Napoleon's campaign in Belgium?
(a) 10 hours.
(b) One week.
(c) 24 hours.
(d) Less than 48 hours.

7. Why is the Prince of Orange excited?
(a) He has just become betrothed and wants a victory to impress his fiance.
(b) He just got a new warhorse.
(c) He expects a great victory against the French.
(d) He receives a letter from his father stating that he is receiving the title early to an estate he loves.

8. What does Jane discover?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She is homesick for England.
(c) She truly loves Sharpe.
(d) She is dying.

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

10. 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.

11. How are the French Dragoons received by the Belgium people?
(a) The Dragoons are fired upon.
(b) The Dragoons are ignored.
(c) Some welcome the Dragoons, but most revile them.
(d) The Dragoons are welcomed.

12. What stops the cavalry advance of the Prince of Orange?
(a) Large cannon fire.
(b) A line of pitch set on fire.
(c) A French infantry square.
(d) Napoleon mastiff dogs which spook the horses.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Napoleon Bonaparte as the Dragoons cross into Belgium?

2. What abates the Prince of York's excitement?

3. Who captures the 69th battalion's colours?

4. Who loses all the ground he has captured?

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

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