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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) A 21-gun salute.
(b) Misleading information.
(c) A map showing the English gun emplacements.
(d) A bunch of violets.

2. 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.

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

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

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

6. How are the Brunswickers identified?
(a) Green coats.
(b) Feathers in their caps.
(c) Yellow coats.
(d) Black coats.

7. Who is Lucille?
(a) Sharpe's sister-in-law.
(b) Sharpe's new wife.
(c) The Duchess of Richmond's handmaiden.
(d) Sharpe's mistress.

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

9. Who does the Duke of Wellington hope will join his forces?
(a) The Dutch 42nd regiment of cavalry.
(b) The English 42nd regiment of riflemen.
(c) The Prussian army under Prince Blucher.
(d) The Dutch 42nd regiment of sharpshooters.

10. What do Harper and Sharpe contemplate?
(a) Whether to lodge an official complaint against the Prince of Orange.
(b) What they should do next.
(c) Whether to retire from the military.
(d) Whether to request reassignment to an English brigade.

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

12. What happens to Saxe-Weimar's men?
(a) They are the first to be slaughtered.
(b) They retreat in an orderly fashion.
(c) They surrender.
(d) They turncoat and join the French in attacking the Prince of Orange's troops.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What dinner do Harper and Sharpe share?

2. What does Napoleon do in the East?

3. What is the Duchess of Richmond preparing to give?

4. What does Sharpe do before returning to Quartre Bras?

5. What does Bonaparte consider the enemy to be?

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