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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) Run for the high ground to reform.
(b) Surrender.
(c) Retreat to the trees.
(d) Run behind the cavalry as back up.

2. What is the horseman attempting to do?
(a) Be accepted into the French ranks in order to spy.
(b) Inform the allied headquarters if the French have indeed entered Belgium in force.
(c) Desert his post.
(d) Get close enough to Napoleon to assassinate him.

3. What has Wellington promised Blucher?
(a) To send the Prince of Orange back to the reserves.
(b) Wellington will come to Blucher's aid unless he himself is attacked at the crossroads.
(c) To lend him Sharpe if necessary.
(d) To have the Dragoons in rout by the end of the day.

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

5. Where is the lone horseman approaching at the opening of chapter 3?
(a) Sambre.
(b) Brussels.
(c) Paris.
(d) Charleroi.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the French Dragoons received by the Belgium people?

2. Who arrives to drive off the French skirmishers?

3. Who arrives at Quatre Bras with the British Light Cavalry?

4. Where is Napoleon Bonaparte as the Dragoons cross into Belgium?

5. About what is the Duke of Wellington worried?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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