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

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

3. How might the pace of the Prussian Major who is taking news to Brussels be described?
(a) Slow through neccessity.
(b) Stalled.
(c) Rapid.
(d) Irresponsibly leisurely.

4. What happens when Halkett obeys the Prince of Orange's orders?
(a) Halkett's men flee the battle.
(b) The Duke of Wellington countermands the order.
(c) The Cuirassiers attack Halkett's line.
(d) The Prince of Orange is relieved of his command.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What order is Sharpe given?

3. How is the horseman dressed?

4. What happens to the 69th battalion?

5. What does Sharpe order Doggett to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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