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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 Lord Rossendale say to the Life Guard officers?
(a) He is going to kill Napoleon.
(b) He will kill Richard Sharpe.
(c) A story about his broken sword and loss of his pistol.
(d) That Sharpe assaulted him and Rossendale wants Sharpe arrested.

2. Where do the Cuirassiers ride?
(a) Forward towards the heavy horse of the Prussians.
(b) They ride east to cut off the reserves of the Prince of Orange.
(c) They ride to flank Wellington.
(d) West to threaten the thin British line.

3. Where does Sharpe return to in chapter 12?
(a) Brussels.
(b) The headquarters of his Royal Highness.
(c) His rifle brigade.
(d) England.

4. What forms the rear guard of the Duke of Wellington's army?
(a) The pikemen.
(b) The elite infantry.
(c) The horse artillery and cavalry.
(d) The sharpshooter brigade.

5. Where do Sharpe and Harper travel with other officers and staff?
(a) Towards the French army's left flank.
(b) Towards the French army's right flank.
(c) With the reserves in the north.
(d) The road south to the crossroads at Mont-St-Jean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe ask of Rossendale?

2. When Sharpe is within twenty paces of Rossendale, what does Rossendale do?

3. What happens to the farmland around Quatre Bras?

4. What does the Duke see to their south?

5. Upon what does the main French infantry advance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What charge of heavy cavalry is described in Chapter 15 and what two roles do the horses have?

2. What stops the French from pursuing the retreating British army?

3. What new weapon is used, who invented it and why did the description of it stand out among other action scenes?

4. What happens to the British Heavy Cavalry unit with which John Rossendale is riding?

5. What is the difference between Napoleon and the Duke in how they come before their men and how their men acknowledge them?

6. What gross error in judgment and orders did the Prince of Orange make in Chapter 15?

7. Describe the area where the retreating British army takes up a position in Chapter 10.

8. What is it about the British muskets that proves the beginning of the French's downfall?

9. What person and his position, provide a good example of dealing with incompetent superiors?

10. How does the author fit in a depiction of the Allied Forces in Chapter 13?

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