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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is given to the general of the French dragoons in Charleroi?
(a) Misleading information.
(b) A 21-gun salute.
(c) A map showing the English gun emplacements.
(d) A bunch of violets.

2. What does Bonaparte consider the enemy to be?
(a) Highly trained.
(b) Greatly outnumbered.
(c) Incompetent.
(d) English scum and their Prussian hirelings.

3. What happens to the 69th battalion?
(a) It regroups and marches towards Brussels.
(b) It reforms with another battalion and they become the 72nd battalion.
(c) It captures Quatre Bras.
(d) It is completely destroyed.

4. How are the French Dragoons received by the Belgium people?
(a) The Dragoons are welcomed.
(b) The Dragoons are ignored.
(c) The Dragoons are fired upon.
(d) Some welcome the Dragoons, but most revile them.

5. Why is the Duchess apprehensive of Rossendale being at her home?
(a) Because Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe will be there and Rossendale's mistress is Sharpe's unfaithful wife, Jane.
(b) She is not apprehensive.
(c) Because Napoleon will kill her if he finds out.
(d) Because he would be disobeying orders to come there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the bugle call the French to do?

2. Who is Prince William of Orange?

3. Who are the Cuirassiers?

4. Who is the horseman identified as?

5. Who is Lucille?

Short Essay Questions

1. To whom does Sharpe send a note when he encounters men from the German Legion and what is the response? Why does he respond that way?

2. What do Rebecque and Sharpe decide Sharpe should do as they study a map of the area?

3. How does Sharpe mitigate a complete disaster with the battalions under French cavalry attack?

4. What is Bonaparte thinking about as he sits in his coach near where the French come into Belgium?

5. What does Sharpe do when he and Doggett see a battalion of French while scouting the crossroad area?

6. What actions of the Dutch-Belgium cavalry in Chapter 7 tell the reader about their ability? What impressions might their actions give?

7. What is one of the first blunders committed by the Prince of Orange?

8. What town on the river Sambre is easily taken by the French, who tries to stop them, and what does this mean in tactical terms?

9. What did the actions in Chapter 7 show about the Prince of Orange and some of the other British officers?

10. Who is Sharpe's mother and in what wars has he fought? To whom is he attached now?

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