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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. About what is the Duke of Wellington worried?
(a) His wife's pregnancy.
(b) The quality and numbers of his troops.
(c) His daughter's illness.
(d) Getting back to England.

2. Why is the Prince of Orange excited?
(a) He just got a new warhorse.
(b) He receives a letter from his father stating that he is receiving the title early to an estate he loves.
(c) He has just become betrothed and wants a victory to impress his fiance.
(d) He expects a great victory against the French.

3. Who arrives to drive off the French skirmishers?
(a) No one.
(b) The 110th Sharpshooters Regiment.
(c) Cavalry under the Prince of Orange.
(d) The Duke of Weston's cavalry.

4. Upon whose staff is the horseman?
(a) No one's.
(b) The Prince of Orange.
(c) The Prince of Belgium.
(d) The Prince of Wales.

5. Who appears on the battle scene just in the nick of time?
(a) The green-jacketed riflemen of the Duke of Welilngton's troops.
(b) No one.
(c) The 110th Riflemen Brigade led by Sharpe.
(d) The Prince of Blucher's troops.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Sharpe and Doggett find a French battalion?

2. Who is Lucille?

3. What does Sharpe do before returning to Quartre Bras?

4. Who launches a full scale cavalry charge to keep the British from forming squares again?

5. What month of the year is it when the story opens?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the ultimate end of the second day of the novel?

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

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

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

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

7. What becomes a major source of friction between the Prince of Orange and Sharpe? Why is Sharpe with the Prince?

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

9. What type of technical details are seen in Chapter 8?

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

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