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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 are many of the British redcoats doing as they wait?
(a) Smoking clay pipes.
(b) Playing cards.
(c) Throwing dice.
(d) Writing home.

2. What is Sharpe asked to do?
(a) Tell Wellington they need reinforcements on the North ridge.
(b) Tell the Prince when to send in the reserves.
(c) Tell the Prince of Orange they do not need reserves.
(d) Take command of the 9nd Battalion.

3. What does Geisenau do?
(a) Makes a false report to Duke Wellington.
(b) Leaves without giving any orders to von Bulow.
(c) Deliberately delays the departure of the Prussian troops.
(d) Gives an incorrect order to von Bulow.

4. Where does the Prince of Orange assign Sharpe?
(a) To the rearguard.
(b) In the front line of attack.
(c) To the right end of the line to watch for a French outflanking move.
(d) To the reserves.

5. Of what is Sharpe convinced?
(a) The west ridge is strong enough without any reserves.
(b) The southern hills are set with an ambush.
(c) The west ridge will fall soon without reserves.
(d) The men in the chateau are perfectly capable of holding the position.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the Prussians located?

2. Who protects the British horse artillery?

3. What is the result of the Prince of Orange's failure to order the Hanoverian line into squares?

4. What does Rossendale resolve to do the next day?

5. With what does the battle start?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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