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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do the Belgian cavalry flee?
(a) They are afraid to attack the more experienced French cavalry.
(b) They do not like the Prince of Orange.
(c) They secretly root for Napoleon's victory.
(d) They had belonged to the French cavalry the year previously.

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

4. 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.

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

6. What does Sharpe do before returning to Quartre Bras?
(a) Drink a bit too much ale.
(b) Challenge Rossendale to a duel.
(c) Insult Jane.
(d) Slap the Duchess's daughter.

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. What abates the Prince of York's excitement?
(a) The French change direction and the Prince's troops do not get to fight.
(b) The Dragoons capture the Prince.
(c) His new warhorse is killed almost immediately.
(d) The first French attack.

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

14. What is the horseman attempting to do?
(a) Be accepted into the French ranks in order to spy.
(b) Get close enough to Napoleon to assassinate him.
(c) Desert his post.
(d) Inform the allied headquarters if the French have indeed entered Belgium in force.

15. Who is Baron Jean de Constant Rebecque?
(a) The Prince of Wales' chief of staff.
(b) The leader of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade.
(c) Napoleon's chief of staff.
(d) The Prince of Orange's chief of staff.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the French Dragoons received by the Belgium people?

2. Who is Lord John Rossendale?

3. What does the Duke of Wellington order the Prince of Orange to do?

4. Who are the Cuirassiers?

5. How do the British defend against the Cuirassiers?

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