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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe ponder also?
(a) About what Peter d'Alembord shares with him the day before.
(b) The fact that he now has a writ of divorcement.
(c) What to do about Rossendale.
(d) If he may die on the morrow.

2. What does Rossendale do when he sees Sharpe coming his way?
(a) Draws his sword.
(b) Flees into the woods.
(c) Calls for help.
(d) Stands his ground.

3. 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 the Duke's 92nd rifle brigade.
(c) To the ridge above the chateau.
(d) To Waterloo.

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

5. What does Wellington order the Earl of Uxbridge to do?
(a) Retreat.
(b) Try to take out the heavy artillery on the South ridge.
(c) Attack the advancing French formations with the British heavy cavalry.
(d) Try to flank the Cuirassiers.

6. What does Lieutenant Simon Bloggett want of Sharpe?
(a) For Sharpe to ask for command of Bloggett's unit.
(b) For Sharpe to show him how to plan an offensive.
(c) Advice about women.
(d) For Sharpe to see the Baron Rebecque.

7. What does Rebecque give Sharpe?
(a) A written commendation.
(b) A written reprimand.
(c) A verbal lashing.
(d) Bread and cold lamb.

8. Who does Sharpe join?
(a) Peter d'Alembord at the bivouac of the Rifle Regiment.
(b) The Prince of Orange.
(c) The Duke of Wellington.
(d) Lieutenant Simon Bloggett.

9. Of what is Sharpe convinced?
(a) The west ridge will fall soon without reserves.
(b) The men in the chateau are perfectly capable of holding the position.
(c) The southern hills are set with an ambush.
(d) The west ridge is strong enough without any reserves.

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

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

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

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

14. 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.

15. How does Blucher's Prussian army fare the day before?
(a) Most of the Prussians deserted and are on their way home.
(b) Utterly destroyed.
(c) Blucher is killed but the army is completely intact.
(d) Defeated but not destroyed.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Sharpe is within twenty paces of Rossendale, what does Rossendale do?

2. Where do French skirmishers mount an attack?

3. What is the result of the Prince of Orange's failure to order the Hanoverian line into squares?

4. What does Wellington order that his men keep?

5. What is happening at the opening of chapter 13?

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