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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. How many of the Duke of Wellington's troops are reliable?
(a) Only about a quarter of them.
(b) Almost all of them.
(c) About 2/3 of them.
(d) About half.

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

3. What abates the Prince of York's excitement?
(a) His new warhorse is killed almost immediately.
(b) The Dragoons capture the Prince.
(c) The French change direction and the Prince's troops do not get to fight.
(d) The first French attack.

4. Where do Sharpe and Doggett find a French battalion?
(a) Near the village of Frasnes.
(b) Almost to Brussels.
(c) Near Quatre Bras.
(d) They find no French.

5. What happens to Saxe-Weimar's men?
(a) They retreat in an orderly fashion.
(b) They surrender.
(c) They are the first to be slaughtered.
(d) They turncoat and join the French in attacking the Prince of Orange's troops.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Prince of Orange enraged?

2. Who arrives to drive off the French skirmishers?

3. What order does Sharpe refuse to take to Halkett?

4. Who captures the 69th battalion's colours?

5. Who loses all the ground he has captured?

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

3. What does the Duke of Wellington read at the ball that interrupts his participation? What does he do after he reads the dispatch?

4. Who does Sharpe encounter while escaping the crossroad area and what happens?

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

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

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

8. Why are the Dutch-Belgium troops unable to fight well?

9. Why are the French able to cross into Belgium and what type of resistance is there?

10. 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?

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