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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 happens sometime during the night?
(a) It stops raining.
(b) It begins raining again.
(c) It starts sleeting.
(d) It starts snowing.

2. What does Rossendale resolve to do the next day?
(a) Regain his honor.
(b) He makes no resolutions.
(c) Humiliate Sharpe.
(d) Kill Sharpe.

3. What does Wellington order that his men keep?
(a) Only their rifles.
(b) Their weapons, ammunition and canteens only.
(c) All their tack.
(d) Only their sabers.

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

5. What does Wellington order the Earl of Uxbridge to do?
(a) Try to flank the Cuirassiers.
(b) Try to take out the heavy artillery on the South ridge.
(c) Retreat.
(d) Attack the advancing French formations with the British heavy cavalry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What impedes the French cavalry from overtaking the British?

2. What is the Emperor's signal to start the battle?

3. Who do Doggett and Sharpe see as they are leaving the Quatre Bras area?

4. How does Blucher's Prussian army fare the day before?

5. Who are the Voltiguers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does D'Alembord's premonition show courage?

2. What is the difference between the disposition of the Allied Forces and the French in Chapter 13? For what does this afford the author an opportunity?

3. What is a major failure on the French part that leads to their ultimate defeat?

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

5. How do Sharpe and other British officers react to the sight of Napoleon and what might be the intent of Napoleon in that regard?

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

7. In Chapter 10, what describes a critical decision made by Wellington that ultimately leads to an Allied victory?

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

9. What does John Rossendale tell his fellow officers about the condition of his sword and pistol in Chapter 10?

10. What explanations about British firing techniques are described in great detail in chapter 15?

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