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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. How is the horseman dressed?
(a) In a bard's outfit.
(b) In fine, nobleman's clothing.
(c) In a medley of different national uniforms.
(d) Like a monk.

2. Why do the Belgian cavalry flee?
(a) They do not like the Prince of Orange.
(b) They had belonged to the French cavalry the year previously.
(c) They secretly root for Napoleon's victory.
(d) They are afraid to attack the more experienced French cavalry.

3. How does Blucher's Prussian army fare the day before?
(a) Utterly destroyed.
(b) Most of the Prussians deserted and are on their way home.
(c) Blucher is killed but the army is completely intact.
(d) Defeated but not destroyed.

4. How does the Duke of Wellington consider his English cavalry?
(a) As sensitive, undisciplined and prone to moments of insanity.
(b) As fine horsemen but terrible marksmen.
(c) As so incompetent they jeopardize other units.
(d) As his finest soldiers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe ask of Rossendale?

2. How many more rivers does Napoleon have to cross before reaching Brussels?

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

4. What month of the year is it when the story opens?

5. What is a backdrop to the possibility of a battle in the morning?

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