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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 is the use for the cobbled road?
(a) For a fast retreat if necessary.
(b) To be able to hear the advance of Napoleon's army.
(c) There is no planned use for it.
(d) To move reinforcements out of sight.

2. What is a backdrop to the possibility of a battle in the morning?
(a) The sounds of cannons firing for alignment.
(b) The sound of sabers being sharpened.
(c) The menacing weather.
(d) The sound of men having bad dreams.

3. Who is with Sharpe when he joins the Prince of Orange at Quatre Bras?
(a) The Prince of Wales.
(b) Patrick Harper.
(c) The 110th Rifle Brigade.
(d) Rossendale.

4. What is the Emperor's signal to start the battle?
(a) A dozen bugle tones.
(b) Three cannon shots.
(c) A single cannon shot.
(d) A 21 gun rifle salute.

5. What do Harper and Sharpe contemplate?
(a) Whether to lodge an official complaint against the Prince of Orange.
(b) What they should do next.
(c) Whether to retire from the military.
(d) Whether to request reassignment to an English brigade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men under Sharpe's leadership do when they cannot form a square?

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

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

4. What happens when Halkett obeys the Prince of Orange's orders?

5. Where are the British's first casualties?

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