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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Second Day, Chapters 7 thru 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What persists towards the East from where Sharpe and Harper are?
(a) A heavy fog.
(b) Grass fires.
(c) Flocks of crows and ravens circling.
(d) The sounds of battle between the Prussians and French.

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

4. What does the horseman's hat look like?
(a) Like it has been shot.
(b) It is dressed with a band with the Russian colors.
(c) It shows the scarlet, gold, and black cockade of the Netherlands.
(d) Like an English officer's hat.

5. How many men has Napoleon gathered to his army in 107 days?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 110,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Baron Jean de Constant Rebecque?

2. Who loses all the ground he has captured?

3. How many of the Duke of Wellington's troops are reliable?

4. What is the horseman attempting to do?

5. How is the horseman dressed?

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