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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 Sharpe order Doggett to do?
(a) To get to Brussels to report to the Duke of Wellington.
(b) To disguise himself as a Belgium peasant.
(c) To return to Quatre Bras to inform Saxe-Weimar.
(d) To go around to one side of the force as Sharpe goes to the other.

2. What stops the cavalry advance of the Prince of Orange?
(a) Large cannon fire.
(b) A line of pitch set on fire.
(c) A French infantry square.
(d) Napoleon mastiff dogs which spook the horses.

3. Who joins the fray who Sharpe and Harper recognize?
(a) The Duke of Northampton's levy.
(b) The Prince of Wale's Own Volunteers.
(c) The Duke of York's levy.
(d) The 94th Riflemen Battalion.

4. Who is Baron Jean de Constant Rebecque?
(a) The leader of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade.
(b) The Prince of Wales' chief of staff.
(c) The Prince of Orange's chief of staff.
(d) Napoleon's chief of staff.

5. Who is Prince William of Orange?
(a) The Duke and heir to the throne of England.
(b) The Duke and heir to the throne of Netherlands.
(c) The Duke and heir to the throne of Germany.
(d) The only experienced commander in the English army.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men has Napoleon gathered to his army in 107 days?

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

3. What happens to the 69th battalion?

4. What is the horseman attempting to do?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Sharpe do when he and Doggett see a battalion of French while scouting the crossroad area?

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

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

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

7. What did the actions in Chapter 7 show about the Prince of Orange and some of the other British officers?

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

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

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

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