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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Third Day, Chapters, 10 thru 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must Sharpe do by the Prince of Orange's orders?
(a) Attend a ball in Brussels and wear a Dutch uniform.
(b) Reconcile with Rossendale.
(c) Take a force of riflemen to flank the Dragoons.
(d) Stay with the Prince and not go out to the front lines.

2. What does Lieutenant Simon Bloggett want of Sharpe?
(a) For Sharpe to show him how to plan an offensive.
(b) Advice about women.
(c) For Sharpe to see the Baron Rebecque.
(d) For Sharpe to ask for command of Bloggett's unit.

3. About what is the Duke of Wellington worried?
(a) Getting back to England.
(b) His daughter's illness.
(c) His wife's pregnancy.
(d) The quality and numbers of his troops.

4. What premonition scares one of Sharpe's friends?
(a) That the friend will turn coward and run.
(b) That Sharpe will do something important in the upcoming battle but will be killed.
(c) That Napoleon will be defeated here.
(d) That he will die soon.

5. What has Wellington promised Blucher?
(a) To have the Dragoons in rout by the end of the day.
(b) To send the Prince of Orange back to the reserves.
(c) Wellington will come to Blucher's aid unless he himself is attacked at the crossroads.
(d) To lend him Sharpe if necessary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Prince of Orange excited?

2. What do Harper and Sharpe contemplate?

3. Why do the Belgian cavalry flee?

4. About what does Rebecque lecture Sharpe?

5. How does the Duke of Wellington consider his English cavalry?

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