View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fourth Day, Chapters 13 thru 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where do Harper and Sharpe withdraw?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Quatre Bras.
(c) Their devastated regiment.
(d) The Prince of Orange.

2. What abates the Prince of York's excitement?
(a) The first French attack.
(b) The French change direction and the Prince's troops do not get to fight.
(c) His new warhorse is killed almost immediately.
(d) The Dragoons capture the Prince.

3. Where do the Cuirassiers ride?
(a) They ride to flank Wellington.
(b) West to threaten the thin British line.
(c) They ride east to cut off the reserves of the Prince of Orange.
(d) Forward towards the heavy horse of the Prussians.

4. What order is Sharpe given?
(a) To rejoin his old regiment.
(b) To report the next day for court martial.
(c) To withdraw from battle and consider himself subject to execution for disobeying a direct order under battle.
(d) To report his insubordination to the Duke of Wellington.

5. Where do French skirmishers mount an attack?
(a) On Mont-St-Jean.
(b) On the Chateau de Hougoumont.
(c) Head on with the Duke's infantry.
(d) On Waterloo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Saxe-Weimar's men?

2. What does the Prince of Orange do to cover his embarrassment from the previous day?

3. Who wears black bearskins?

4. Who joins the fray who Sharpe and Harper recognize?

5. What does Colonel MacDonnell ask Sharpe?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 339 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample