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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 does Napoleon do in the East?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Attacks Blucher's Prussian army.
(c) Withdraws his cavalry.
(d) Defeats the Dutch artillery.

2. What happens to the Dutch-Belgian guns and infantry?
(a) They confuse their orders and are not where they are supposed to be.
(b) They are flanked and surrender.
(c) They leave the battlefield in a blind panic.
(d) They are slaughtered almost to a man.

3. What do Harper and Sharpe contemplate?
(a) What they should do next.
(b) Whether to lodge an official complaint against the Prince of Orange.
(c) Whether to retire from the military.
(d) Whether to request reassignment to an English brigade.

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

5. To whom is a note about the French advance delivered?
(a) No one.
(b) The Duke of Wellingham.
(c) The King of Belgium.
(d) General Dornberg.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lord John Rossendale?

2. What persists towards the East from where Sharpe and Harper are?

3. What must Sharpe do by the Prince of Orange's orders?

4. What does Sharpe do before returning to Quartre Bras?

5. What stops the cavalry advance of the Prince of Orange?

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