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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens when Halkett obeys the Prince of Orange's orders?
(a) The Prince of Orange is relieved of his command.
(b) The Duke of Wellington countermands the order.
(c) The Cuirassiers attack Halkett's line.
(d) Halkett's men flee the battle.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. Who is Lord John Rossendale?
(a) The Duchess's brother.
(b) The Duchess's husband.
(c) The commander of the riflemen facing the Dragoons.
(d) A cavalry officer of the British Life Guards.

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

14. 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.

15. What has Wellington promised Blucher?
(a) Wellington will come to Blucher's aid unless he himself is attacked at the crossroads.
(b) To lend him Sharpe if necessary.
(c) To have the Dragoons in rout by the end of the day.
(d) To send the Prince of Orange back to the reserves.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the horseman dressed?

2. Why do the Belgian cavalry flee?

3. What happens to the Dutch-Belgian guns and infantry?

4. Where do Sharpe and Doggett find a French battalion?

5. Who arrives to drive off the French skirmishers?

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