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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. Who are the Voltiguers?
(a) The Belgian reserves.
(b) French skirmishers.
(c) The Prussian reserves.
(d) The French cavalry reserves.

2. How are the British heavy cavalry defeated?
(a) They fail to listen to the bugle call to retreat.
(b) They run up on hidden cannons.
(c) They are overpowered by the Cuirassiers.
(d) They run up on hidden light guns.

3. With what does the battle start?
(a) A clap of thunder.
(b) A cannon duel.
(c) Eerie silence.
(d) A dozen French brigades screaming a battle cry.

4. What impedes the French cavalry from overtaking the British?
(a) Harrassment by English sharpshooters.
(b) The muddy ground.
(c) Harrassment by the 110th Prussian cavalry.
(d) Harrassment by the Belgium artillery.

5. Who falls with the heavy cavalry?
(a) The Prince of Orange.
(b) Harper.
(c) Peter.
(d) Lord Rossendale.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is Sharpe convinced?

2. What is the weather like as the British wait for Napoleon's army?

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

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

5. Which men are posted to reinforce the garrison defending Hougoumont?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Sharpe tell Rossendale during their encounter in the woods?

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