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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 happens to the 69th battalion?
(a) It is completely destroyed.
(b) It reforms with another battalion and they become the 72nd battalion.
(c) It captures Quatre Bras.
(d) It regroups and marches towards Brussels.

2. Who is Lord John Rossendale?
(a) A cavalry officer of the British Life Guards.
(b) The Duchess's brother.
(c) The commander of the riflemen facing the Dragoons.
(d) The Duchess's husband.

3. How are the Brunswickers identified?
(a) Black coats.
(b) Yellow coats.
(c) Feathers in their caps.
(d) Green coats.

4. What order is Sharpe given?
(a) To report his insubordination to the Duke of Wellington.
(b) To rejoin his old regiment.
(c) To withdraw from battle and consider himself subject to execution for disobeying a direct order under battle.
(d) To report the next day for court martial.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who appears on the battle scene just in the nick of time?

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

4. Why might Sharpe not come to the Duchess's home?

5. What is the use for the cobbled road?

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