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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Second Day, Chapters 7 thru 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What persists towards the East from where Sharpe and Harper are?
(a) The sounds of battle between the Prussians and French.
(b) Flocks of crows and ravens circling.
(c) Grass fires.
(d) A heavy fog.

2. What month of the year is it when the story opens?
(a) September.
(b) April.
(c) June.
(d) December.

3. Where does Sharpe go to report after engaging the French forces in a feint?
(a) Quartre Bras.
(b) Brussels.
(c) The Prince of Orange's headquarters.
(d) He stays to keep track of the French army.

4. Why is the Duchess apprehensive of Rossendale being at her home?
(a) Because Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe will be there and Rossendale's mistress is Sharpe's unfaithful wife, Jane.
(b) She is not apprehensive.
(c) Because he would be disobeying orders to come there.
(d) Because Napoleon will kill her if he finds out.

5. Why do the Prince of Orange's men refuse to follow him to attack the French cannon?
(a) A brigade of French light cavalry has appeared.
(b) They have to ride through a grass fire to get there.
(c) The mastiffs are ringed around the cannons.
(d) There are several smaller cannons trained on them.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is a note about the French advance delivered?

2. What order is Sharpe given?

3. How is the horseman dressed?

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

5. What does Jane discover?

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