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

2. What does the Duke of Wellington order the Prince of Orange to do?
(a) To resign his position.
(b) To return to his headquarters immediately.
(c) To return to his headquarters after the ball.
(d) To find Sharpe for questioning.

3. What do Sharpe and Rebecque draft in Chapter 5?
(a) A group of Belgium farmers.
(b) An order for Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, ostensibly from the Prince of Orange.
(c) A letter releasing Rossendale from service.
(d) A herd of horses for their cavalry.

4. Why is the Prince of Orange enraged?
(a) Because the Duke of Wellington snubs him.
(b) Because his reserve war horse has also been killed.
(c) Because his infantry collapse on the first attack and his cavalry is routed by the French lancers.
(d) Because he thinks he should lead a charge against the Cuirassiers.

5. What do the men under Sharpe's leadership do when they cannot form a square?
(a) Surrender.
(b) Retreat to the trees.
(c) Run for the high ground to reform.
(d) Run behind the cavalry as back up.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who joins the fray who Sharpe and Harper recognize?

2. What is given to the general of the French dragoons in Charleroi?

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

4. How does the Duke of Wellington consider his English cavalry?

5. How do the British defend against the Cuirassiers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is the Duchess of Richmond apprehensive about John Rossendale?

3. Who does Sharpe see as he leaves Wellington to return to the crossroads? What does he do?

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

5. How do the French feel about the outcome of the war and why haven't the Prussians come to help the British?

6. What are some of the types of infantry attack used in the battle for Quatre Bras?

7. What do Sharpe and Harper do on the second night of battle?

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

9. Why is the Duke of Wellington worried about his troops and what kinds of troops does he have?

10. What is used on the field of battle besides weapons and men and why?

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