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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rebecque give Sharpe?
(a) A verbal lashing.
(b) Bread and cold lamb.
(c) A written commendation.
(d) A written reprimand.

2. What does the Prince of Orange do to cover his embarrassment from the previous day?
(a) Blusters his way through planning his army's assignment.
(b) Makes an exaggerated analysis of the allied lines.
(c) Says the knock on his head addled his brains.
(d) Asks Sharpe about the encounter with Lord Rossendale.

3. What happens to the Dutch-Belgian guns and infantry?
(a) They are slaughtered almost to a man.
(b) They are flanked and surrender.
(c) They leave the battlefield in a blind panic.
(d) They confuse their orders and are not where they are supposed to be.

4. What does the Duke see to their south?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The Prince of Orange's men.
(c) The Prussian army.
(d) Only a few horsemen on an empty ridge.

5. What does Wellington do about the troops' baggage?
(a) Sends it to the rear.
(b) Sends it to be joined with that of the Prince of Orange's supply line.
(c) Has it assembled where the troops can reach it for ammo.
(d) Lines it up in front of them to delay the French infantry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the weather like as the British wait for Napoleon's army?

2. What do Harper and Sharpe contemplate?

3. Who arrives to drive off the French skirmishers?

4. Where does the Prince of Orange assign Sharpe?

5. What does the bugle call the French to do?

(see the answer key)

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