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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. How does Blucher's Prussian army fare the day before?
(a) Utterly destroyed.
(b) Defeated but not destroyed.
(c) Blucher is killed but the army is completely intact.
(d) Most of the Prussians deserted and are on their way home.

2. Who wears black bearskins?
(a) The elite French legion of the forest.
(b) The elite French legion of the cross.
(c) The elite Imperial Guard.
(d) The sharpshooters.

3. Who is Christopher Manvell?
(a) Rossendale's friend to whom he tells the truth.
(b) A spy for the British.
(c) The Duke of Wellington's valet.
(d) Sharpe's second in command.

4. What premonition scares one of Sharpe's friends?
(a) That Napoleon will be defeated here.
(b) That Sharpe will do something important in the upcoming battle but will be killed.
(c) That the friend will turn coward and run.
(d) That he will die soon.

5. What does Rossendale do when he sees Sharpe coming his way?
(a) Draws his sword.
(b) Flees into the woods.
(c) Calls for help.
(d) Stands his ground.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sharpe asked to do?

2. What does Wellington do about the troops' baggage?

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

4. Where do the French retreat?

5. What are the British gunners firing from the ridge?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What makes Rossendale feel better about himself?

3. What does the author's placement of Sharpe in Chapter 14 do as a narrative device?

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

5. Why, on the third day, are the French still confident of victory?

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

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

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

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

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

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