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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The First Day, Chapters 1 thru 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the Duchess apprehensive of Rossendale being at her home?
(a) She is not apprehensive.
(b) Because Napoleon will kill her if he finds out.
(c) Because he would be disobeying orders to come there.
(d) Because Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe will be there and Rossendale's mistress is Sharpe's unfaithful wife, Jane.

2. Where is Napoleon Bonaparte as the Dragoons cross into Belgium?
(a) On Elba Island.
(b) About 10 miles south of the entry place.
(c) In Russia.
(d) In Paris.

3. Who is Lord John Rossendale?
(a) The commander of the riflemen facing the Dragoons.
(b) A cavalry officer of the British Life Guards.
(c) The Duchess's brother.
(d) The Duchess's husband.

4. What is given to the general of the French dragoons in Charleroi?
(a) Misleading information.
(b) A map showing the English gun emplacements.
(c) A 21-gun salute.
(d) A bunch of violets.

5. Who accompanies Sharpe to Quatre Bras?
(a) No one.
(b) A Belgium sharpshooter.
(c) A civilian guide.
(d) An eighteen-year-old, Lieutenant Simon Doggett.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe order Doggett to do?

2. How might the pace of the Prussian Major who is taking news to Brussels be described?

3. What does the horseman's hat look like?

4. What causes the most casualties to the Dragoons from the Prussians?

5. What is one group that is part of the Duke of Wellington's troops?

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