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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the Cuirassiers?
(a) The French pikemen.
(b) The Dutch special lance brigade.
(c) A band of pirates who have thrown in with the French.
(d) The "big brothers" of the French army on heavy horses.

2. Why might Sharpe not come to the Duchess's home?
(a) He is busy counter attacking the Dragoons.
(b) He is ill.
(c) He knows Rossendale is in town.
(d) He does not enjoy social functions.

3. Who is Prince William of Orange?
(a) The only experienced commander in the English army.
(b) The Duke and heir to the throne of England.
(c) The Duke and heir to the throne of Germany.
(d) The Duke and heir to the throne of Netherlands.

4. How many of the Duke of Wellington's troops are reliable?
(a) About half.
(b) About 2/3 of them.
(c) Almost all of them.
(d) Only about a quarter of them.

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

6. What dinner do Harper and Sharpe share?
(a) Roasted horse meat.
(b) Beef jerky.
(c) Hard biscuits and dried pork.
(d) Roasted pig.

7. What is the horseman attempting to do?
(a) Desert his post.
(b) Get close enough to Napoleon to assassinate him.
(c) Be accepted into the French ranks in order to spy.
(d) Inform the allied headquarters if the French have indeed entered Belgium in force.

8. Why is the Prince of Orange enraged?
(a) Because the Duke of Wellington snubs him.
(b) Because he thinks he should lead a charge against the Cuirassiers.
(c) Because his infantry collapse on the first attack and his cavalry is routed by the French lancers.
(d) Because his reserve war horse has also been killed.

9. What stops the cavalry advance of the Prince of Orange?
(a) Large cannon fire.
(b) A French infantry square.
(c) A line of pitch set on fire.
(d) Napoleon mastiff dogs which spook the horses.

10. What does Bonaparte consider the enemy to be?
(a) Highly trained.
(b) English scum and their Prussian hirelings.
(c) Greatly outnumbered.
(d) Incompetent.

11. Upon whose staff is the horseman?
(a) The Prince of Wales.
(b) The Prince of Belgium.
(c) No one's.
(d) The Prince of Orange.

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

13. What does Jane discover?
(a) She is dying.
(b) She is homesick for England.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She truly loves Sharpe.

14. Who launches a full scale cavalry charge to keep the British from forming squares again?
(a) Marshal Ney.
(b) Napoleon.
(c) Kellerman.
(d) Lafayette.

15. What persists towards the East from where Sharpe and Harper are?
(a) Flocks of crows and ravens circling.
(b) Grass fires.
(c) The sounds of battle between the Prussians and French.
(d) A heavy fog.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the French Dragoons received by the Belgium people?

2. What happens to the Dutch-Belgian guns and infantry?

3. What abates the Prince of York's excitement?

4. Who loses all the ground he has captured?

5. Why do the Prince of Orange's men refuse to follow him to attack the French cannon?

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