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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the Duke see to their south?
(a) Only a few horsemen on an empty ridge.
(b) The Prince of Orange's men.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The Prussian army.

3. What is the Emperor's signal to start the battle?
(a) A 21 gun rifle salute.
(b) Three cannon shots.
(c) A dozen bugle tones.
(d) A single cannon shot.

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

5. What premonition scares one of Sharpe's friends?
(a) That he will die soon.
(b) That the friend will turn coward and run.
(c) That Sharpe will do something important in the upcoming battle but will be killed.
(d) That Napoleon will be defeated here.

6. What does Wellington do about the troops' baggage?
(a) Sends it to be joined with that of the Prince of Orange's supply line.
(b) Has it assembled where the troops can reach it for ammo.
(c) Lines it up in front of them to delay the French infantry.
(d) Sends it to the rear.

7. Who wears black bearskins?
(a) The elite French legion of the cross.
(b) The sharpshooters.
(c) The elite French legion of the forest.
(d) The elite Imperial Guard.

8. Where do Sharpe and Harper go after the French skirmishers retreat?
(a) To the west flank of the Prince of Orange's troops.
(b) To Waterloo.
(c) To the ridge above the chateau.
(d) To the Duke's 92nd rifle brigade.

9. What is the weather like as the British wait for Napoleon's army?
(a) Driving rain and wind.
(b) Clear and warm.
(c) Clear and very cold.
(d) Overcast and about to rain.

10. Where does Sharpe return to in chapter 12?
(a) England.
(b) Brussels.
(c) The headquarters of his Royal Highness.
(d) His rifle brigade.

11. What is happening at the opening of chapter 13?
(a) Sharpe is dressed down by the Prince of Orange.
(b) Harper wakes Sharpe with the news that Napoleon has already started his attack.
(c) The preparations by the British forces for the impending battle.
(d) Sharpe and Rossendale have another encounter.

12. What does Sharpe do to the pistol?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Empties it and hands it back to Rossendale.
(c) Destroys it.
(d) Takes it and puts it in his own belt.

13. Who do Doggett and Sharpe see as they are leaving the Quatre Bras area?
(a) The Emperor Napoleon.
(b) Duke of Wellington.
(c) Major Gesser with Napoleon.
(d) Lord John Rossendale.

14. Where is Wellington preparing for battle?
(a) On the north ridge.
(b) On a pair of hills to the south of Waterloo.
(c) In the center between the Prussians and Belgians.
(d) South of the Prince of Orange.

15. How are Napoleon's men dressed?
(a) In drab grey.
(b) In several different styles from various campaigns.
(c) Like a ragtag Army.
(d) In their finest uniforms with gold and silver plumes that gleam in the weak sunshine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sharpe meet Harper?

2. What does Colonel MacDonnell ask Sharpe?

3. How does Rossendale get separated from his friends?

4. What forms the rear guard of the Duke of Wellington's army?

5. Who is Christopher Manvell?

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