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

2. How does the Duke of Wellington treat the Prince of Orange?
(a) He commiserates with the Prince.
(b) In an official capacity.
(c) Effusively.
(d) Curtly.

3. What is one group that is part of the Duke of Wellington's troops?
(a) The King's German Legion.
(b) The Russian Cossack cavalry.
(c) The Irish Third Artillery.
(d) The Wale's sharpshooters.

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

5. How many men has Napoleon gathered to his army in 107 days?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 110,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the horseman dressed?

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

3. Who is Baron Jean de Constant Rebecque?

4. What happens to Saxe-Weimar's men?

5. What order is Sharpe given?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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