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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 herd of horses for their cavalry.
(c) A letter releasing Rossendale from service.
(d) A group of Belgium farmers.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who are the Cuirassiers?
(a) The "big brothers" of the French army on heavy horses.
(b) A band of pirates who have thrown in with the French.
(c) The French pikemen.
(d) The Dutch special lance brigade.

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

10. 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 go around to one side of the force as Sharpe goes to the other.
(d) To disguise himself as a Belgium peasant.

11. Why is the Duchess apprehensive of Rossendale being at her home?
(a) Because Napoleon will kill her if he finds out.
(b) Because Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe will be there and Rossendale's mistress is Sharpe's unfaithful wife, Jane.
(c) She is not apprehensive.
(d) Because he would be disobeying orders to come there.

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

13. To whom is a note about the French advance delivered?
(a) No one.
(b) The Duke of Wellingham.
(c) General Dornberg.
(d) The King of Belgium.

14. Where is the lone horseman approaching at the opening of chapter 3?
(a) Charleroi.
(b) Sambre.
(c) Paris.
(d) Brussels.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one group that is part of the Duke of Wellington's troops?

2. How many of the Duke of Wellington's troops are reliable?

3. Who is with Sharpe when he joins the Prince of Orange at Quatre Bras?

4. Who loses all the ground he has captured?

5. How might the pace of the Prussian Major who is taking news to Brussels be described?

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