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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 month of the year is it when the story opens?
(a) December.
(b) June.
(c) April.
(d) September.

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

3. Who captures the 69th battalion's colours?
(a) The 3rd French legion.
(b) The Cuirassiers.
(c) The Hussars.
(d) The Hessians.

4. Who is the horseman identified as?
(a) General Dornberg.
(b) The Duke of Wellington.
(c) Harper.
(d) Richard Sharpe.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Napoleon do in the East?

4. How many more rivers does Napoleon have to cross before reaching Brussels?

5. What dinner do Harper and Sharpe share?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. To whom does Sharpe send a note when he encounters men from the German Legion and what is the response? Why does he respond that way?

8. How does Sharpe mitigate a complete disaster with the battalions under French cavalry attack?

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

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

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