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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 do the men under Sharpe's leadership do when they cannot form a square?
(a) Surrender.
(b) Retreat to the trees.
(c) Run behind the cavalry as back up.
(d) Run for the high ground to reform.

2. Where do the French retreat?
(a) To the woods.
(b) To the south.
(c) To the west ridge.
(d) To Waterloo.

3. Where do Sharpe and Harper watch the attack by the French skirmishers?
(a) On the ridge to the south of the Prince of Orange's forces.
(b) On the ridge to the north of a farmhouse.
(c) In a field next to the fortified farm.
(d) They stay in the barn.

4. What happens to Saxe-Weimar's men?
(a) They retreat in an orderly fashion.
(b) They are the first to be slaughtered.
(c) They turncoat and join the French in attacking the Prince of Orange's troops.
(d) They surrender.

5. Who does Sharpe wonder about atoning to for his insubordination?
(a) The Duke of Wellington.
(b) The Duke of York.
(c) The Prince of Orange.
(d) The Prince of Wales.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wears black bearskins?

2. What does Sharpe do to the pistol?

3. When Sharpe is within twenty paces of Rossendale, what does Rossendale do?

4. Upon what does the main French infantry advance?

5. About what does Rebecque lecture Sharpe?

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