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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 order is Sharpe given?
(a) To report his insubordination to the Duke of Wellington.
(b) To rejoin his old regiment.
(c) To report the next day for court martial.
(d) To withdraw from battle and consider himself subject to execution for disobeying a direct order under battle.

2. What does Bonaparte consider the enemy to be?
(a) Incompetent.
(b) Greatly outnumbered.
(c) English scum and their Prussian hirelings.
(d) Highly trained.

3. What do Harper and Sharpe contemplate?
(a) Whether to request reassignment to an English brigade.
(b) Whether to retire from the military.
(c) What they should do next.
(d) Whether to lodge an official complaint against the Prince of Orange.

4. 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.

5. How are the Brunswickers identified?
(a) Green coats.
(b) Black coats.
(c) Yellow coats.
(d) Feathers in their caps.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the horseman dressed?

2. Who is Lucille?

3. Why is the Prince of Orange enraged?

4. What does Napoleon do in the East?

5. To whom is a note about the French advance delivered?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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