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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 do Sharpe and Rebecque draft in Chapter 5?
(a) A letter releasing Rossendale from service.
(b) An order for Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, ostensibly from the Prince of Orange.
(c) A herd of horses for their cavalry.
(d) A group of Belgium farmers.

2. What stops the cavalry advance of the Prince of Orange?
(a) Large cannon fire.
(b) Napoleon mastiff dogs which spook the horses.
(c) A line of pitch set on fire.
(d) A French infantry square.

3. What does Jane discover?
(a) She truly loves Sharpe.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is dying.
(d) She is homesick for England.

4. Who are the Cuirassiers?
(a) The "big brothers" of the French army on heavy horses.
(b) A band of pirates who have thrown in with the French.
(c) The French pikemen.
(d) The Dutch special lance brigade.

5. What abates the Prince of York's excitement?
(a) The Dragoons capture the Prince.
(b) The French change direction and the Prince's troops do not get to fight.
(c) His new warhorse is killed almost immediately.
(d) The first French attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the 69th battalion?

2. What happens to the farmland around Quatre Bras?

3. What does Sharpe ponder also?

4. Who is with Sharpe when he joins the Prince of Orange at Quatre Bras?

5. What is given to the general of the French dragoons in Charleroi?

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