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

2. Where are the British's first casualties?
(a) On the battalions sheltering beyond the crest of the ridge.
(b) On the Prussian's left flank.
(c) On the Belgian's left flank.
(d) In the reserves where the French sneak up from behind.

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

4. Who is in charge of the Prussian army?
(a) The Prince of Orange.
(b) The Duke of Wellington.
(c) Marshal Prince Blucher.
(d) General Hollenzoleren.

5. Upon what does the main French infantry advance?
(a) The Belgian infantry.
(b) The ridge.
(c) The Prussian army's infantry.
(d) The Belgian pikes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rebecque want of Sharpe?

2. What is Sharpe asked to do?

3. Who rides with the British heavy cavalry?

4. Who does Sharpe join?

5. Where does Sharpe meet Harper?

Short Essay Questions

1. What person and his position, provide a good example of dealing with incompetent superiors?

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

3. By the end of Chapter 10 what do each of the characters in the story face?

4. How does the author fit in a depiction of the Allied Forces in Chapter 13?

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

6. What makes Rossendale feel better about himself?

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

8. What type of relationship does the contrast of the two opposing generals have to the two armies?

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

10. What is it about the British muskets that proves the beginning of the French's downfall?

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