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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fourth Day, Chapters 17 thru 20, Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many men has Napoleon gathered to his army in 107 days?
(a) 110,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 25,000.

3. What is happening at the opening of chapter 13?
(a) Harper wakes Sharpe with the news that Napoleon has already started his attack.
(b) Sharpe and Rossendale have another encounter.
(c) Sharpe is dressed down by the Prince of Orange.
(d) The preparations by the British forces for the impending battle.

4. What does Sharpe try to do surreptitiously?
(a) Wound the Prince of Orange.
(b) Suggest a way of winning the day.
(c) Move up and take out a cannon position that is doing the most damage.
(d) Kill the Prince of Orange.

5. What happens to this wave of French cavalry?
(a) It retreats and heads for the British fortified garrison.
(b) It is completely slaughtered.
(c) It retreats and then goes to flank the Prussians.
(d) It ebbs away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe call the Prince of Orange?

2. What is still flying about the square where the Inniskillings lie?

3. What does Bonaparte consider the enemy to be?

4. What does Napoleon do in the East?

5. What is happening to the redcoats who have been ordered to lie down?

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