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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the British heavy cavalry defeated?
(a) They are overpowered by the Cuirassiers.
(b) They fail to listen to the bugle call to retreat.
(c) They run up on hidden light guns.
(d) They run up on hidden cannons.

2. About what does Rebecque lecture Sharpe?
(a) How to respond to an imbecilic order.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Not to risk his life on the recon mission.
(d) Not to interfere in the duel if no cheating is going on.

3. What does Rebecque want of Sharpe?
(a) To be Rebecque's second in a duel.
(b) Rebecque wants Sharpe to make peace with the Prince.
(c) To lead a small group of soldiers for reconaissance.
(d) To take charge of a forward expedition.

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

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

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

7. Where do Sharpe and Harper travel with other officers and staff?
(a) With the reserves in the north.
(b) Towards the French army's left flank.
(c) The road south to the crossroads at Mont-St-Jean.
(d) Towards the French army's right flank.

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

9. What does Rossendale resolve to do the next day?
(a) Kill Sharpe.
(b) He makes no resolutions.
(c) Regain his honor.
(d) Humiliate Sharpe.

10. What does Sharpe ask of Rossendale?
(a) To not be such a coward.
(b) A truce.
(c) A promissory note.
(d) To have Jane back.

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

12. Where are the British's first casualties?
(a) On the battalions sheltering beyond the crest of the ridge.
(b) On the Belgian's left flank.
(c) On the Prussian's left flank.
(d) In the reserves where the French sneak up from behind.

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

14. What is von Bulow's Fourth corp supposed to do?
(a) Lead an advance on Waterloo to fight side by side with Wellington.
(b) Lead the 2nd wave after the sharpshooters.
(c) Hold in reserve.
(d) Move forward to feint an attack and draw the heavy cavalry to the left flank of Wellington's army.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where are the Prussians located?

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

5. Who is in charge of the Prussian army?

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