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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What impedes the French cavalry from overtaking the British?
(a) Harrassment by the Belgium artillery.
(b) Harrassment by English sharpshooters.
(c) Harrassment by the 110th Prussian cavalry.
(d) The muddy ground.

2. Where do Sharpe and Harper watch the attack by the French skirmishers?
(a) On the ridge to the south of the Prince of Orange's forces.
(b) On the ridge to the north of a farmhouse.
(c) They stay in the barn.
(d) In a field next to the fortified farm.

3. Who is in charge of the Prussian army?
(a) The Prince of Orange.
(b) The Duke of Wellington.
(c) Marshal Prince Blucher.
(d) General Hollenzoleren.

4. Where do the French retreat?
(a) To the woods.
(b) To Waterloo.
(c) To the south.
(d) To the west ridge.

5. What forms the rear guard of the Duke of Wellington's army?
(a) The sharpshooter brigade.
(b) The elite infantry.
(c) The pikemen.
(d) The horse artillery and cavalry.

6. What is the use for the cobbled road?
(a) For a fast retreat if necessary.
(b) To be able to hear the advance of Napoleon's army.
(c) There is no planned use for it.
(d) To move reinforcements out of sight.

7. What does Geisenau do?
(a) Leaves without giving any orders to von Bulow.
(b) Gives an incorrect order to von Bulow.
(c) Makes a false report to Duke Wellington.
(d) Deliberately delays the departure of the Prussian troops.

8. What is a backdrop to the possibility of a battle in the morning?
(a) The sound of sabers being sharpened.
(b) The sound of men having bad dreams.
(c) The sounds of cannons firing for alignment.
(d) The menacing weather.

9. Where does the retreating British army take up its position.
(a) Near Amsterdam.
(b) In the country near Staatsville.
(c) Just south of the village of Waterloo.
(d) Near Brussels.

10. What does Lord Rossendale say to the Life Guard officers?
(a) He is going to kill Napoleon.
(b) He will kill Richard Sharpe.
(c) That Sharpe assaulted him and Rossendale wants Sharpe arrested.
(d) A story about his broken sword and loss of his pistol.

11. What is the result of the Prince of Orange's failure to order the Hanoverian line into squares?
(a) They are almost all slaughtered.
(b) They make a line.
(c) They begin an orderly retreat.
(d) They retreat in disorderly fashion.

12. What does the Prince of Orange order?
(a) Sharpe to join the forward rifle company.
(b) The Hanoverians to advance on La Hay Sainte to recapture it, though it has not been lost.
(c) The light cavalry to charge the garrison position.
(d) Sharpe to take charge of the Hanoverians.

13. What does the Prince of Orange do to cover his embarrassment from the previous day?
(a) Blusters his way through planning his army's assignment.
(b) Makes an exaggerated analysis of the allied lines.
(c) Asks Sharpe about the encounter with Lord Rossendale.
(d) Says the knock on his head addled his brains.

14. Who does Sharpe think about in Brussels?
(a) No one.
(b) Lucille.
(c) The Duke of Blucher.
(d) Jane.

15. What does Wellington order that his men keep?
(a) Their weapons, ammunition and canteens only.
(b) All their tack.
(c) Only their sabers.
(d) Only their rifles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wears black bearskins?

2. How are Napoleon's men dressed?

3. What does Sharpe ponder also?

4. Upon what does the main French infantry advance?

5. What does Lieutenant Simon Bloggett want of Sharpe?

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