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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the bugle call the French to do?
(a) Retreat.
(b) Attack on three sides.
(c) Flank the 95th infantry regiment and attack.
(d) Encircle the remaining British forces.

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

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

6. How is the horseman dressed?
(a) Like a monk.
(b) In a bard's outfit.
(c) In a medley of different national uniforms.
(d) In fine, nobleman's clothing.

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

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

9. What does the horseman's hat look like?
(a) It is dressed with a band with the Russian colors.
(b) It shows the scarlet, gold, and black cockade of the Netherlands.
(c) Like it has been shot.
(d) Like an English officer's hat.

10. What is Lucille most afraid of as she says goodbye to Sharpe?
(a) Having to go back to England unwed and pregnant if Sharpe dies.
(b) Sharpe getting killed.
(c) Rossendale taking out his hatred of Sharpe on Lucille.
(d) A British defeat and the French marching into Brussels.

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

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

13. What must Sharpe do by the Prince of Orange's orders?
(a) Take a force of riflemen to flank the Dragoons.
(b) Stay with the Prince and not go out to the front lines.
(c) Reconcile with Rossendale.
(d) Attend a ball in Brussels and wear a Dutch uniform.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Napoleon's campaign in Belgium?

2. Who launches a full scale cavalry charge to keep the British from forming squares again?

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

4. Why might Sharpe not come to the Duchess's home?

5. Who is Prince William of Orange?

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