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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 does Rebecque want of Sharpe?
(a) To be Rebecque's second in a duel.
(b) Rebecque wants Sharpe to make peace with the Prince.
(c) To lead a small group of soldiers for reconaissance.
(d) To take charge of a forward expedition.
2. Which men are posted to reinforce the garrison defending Hougoumont?
(a) The 2nd Guards Brigade.
(b) The 2nd Infantry Artillery Brigade.
(c) The 3rd Horse Artillery Battalion.
(d) The 2nd Heavy Cavalry.
3. What does Sharpe do to the pistol?
(a) Takes it and puts it in his own belt.
(b) Empties it and hands it back to Rossendale.
(c) Destroys it.
(d) Nothing.
4. Where are the British's first casualties?
(a) On the Belgian's left flank.
(b) On the Prussian's left flank.
(c) On the battalions sheltering beyond the crest of the ridge.
(d) In the reserves where the French sneak up from behind.
5. Upon what does Rebecque give up?
(a) Getting the Prince of Orange to lead from a safe place.
(b) Getting the Prince of Orange to stay in the rear lines.
(c) Getting Sharpe to be more tactful.
(d) Getting Sharpe to wear a Dutch uniform.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Sharpe return to in chapter 12?
2. What does Colonel MacDonnell ask Sharpe?
3. What does the Duke see to their south?
4. What are the British gunners firing from the ridge?
5. What happens sometime during the night?
Short Essay Questions
1. What gross error in judgment and orders did the Prince of Orange make in Chapter 15?
2. What happens to the British Heavy Cavalry unit with which John Rossendale is riding?
3. What is it about the British muskets that proves the beginning of the French's downfall?
4. In Chapter 10, what describes a critical decision made by Wellington that ultimately leads to an Allied victory?
5. How does D'Alembord's premonition show courage?
6. What is a major failure on the French part that leads to their ultimate defeat?
7. What type of relationship does the contrast of the two opposing generals have to the two armies?
8. What does the author's placement of Sharpe in Chapter 14 do as a narrative device?
9. By the end of Chapter 10 what do each of the characters in the story face?
10. What is the difference between Napoleon and the Duke in how they come before their men and how their men acknowledge them?
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