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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Upon what does Rebecque give up?
(a) Getting Sharpe to wear a Dutch uniform.
(b) Getting the Prince of Orange to lead from a safe place.
(c) Getting the Prince of Orange to stay in the rear lines.
(d) Getting Sharpe to be more tactful.

5. When Sharpe is within twenty paces of Rossendale, what does Rossendale do?
(a) Yells for his aide.
(b) Drops his sword and raises his empty hands.
(c) Raises his pistol.
(d) Fires his pistol into the air to attract attention.

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

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

8. Where do French skirmishers mount an attack?
(a) On the Chateau de Hougoumont.
(b) Head on with the Duke's infantry.
(c) On Waterloo.
(d) On Mont-St-Jean.

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

10. What happens sometime during the night?
(a) It stops raining.
(b) It begins raining again.
(c) It starts snowing.
(d) It starts sleeting.

11. Who is Christopher Manvell?
(a) The Duke of Wellington's valet.
(b) A spy for the British.
(c) Sharpe's second in command.
(d) Rossendale's friend to whom he tells the truth.

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

13. With what are the British redcoats' canteens filled?
(a) Water.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Rum or gin.
(d) Medicinal tea.

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

15. Who falls with the heavy cavalry?
(a) Lord Rossendale.
(b) Harper.
(c) Peter.
(d) The Prince of Orange.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Colonel MacDonnell ask Sharpe?

2. Who wears black bearskins?

3. Who are the Voltiguers?

4. What does Geisenau do?

5. What happens to the farmland around Quatre Bras?

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