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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fourth Day, Chapters 17 thru 20, Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Prince of Orange do to cover his embarrassment from the previous day?
(a) Makes an exaggerated analysis of the allied lines.
(b) Asks Sharpe about the encounter with Lord Rossendale.
(c) Says the knock on his head addled his brains.
(d) Blusters his way through planning his army's assignment.

2. What does Wellington order the Earl of Uxbridge to do?
(a) Try to flank the Cuirassiers.
(b) Attack the advancing French formations with the British heavy cavalry.
(c) Retreat.
(d) Try to take out the heavy artillery on the South ridge.

3. What is the result of the Prince of Orange's failure to order the Hanoverian line into squares?
(a) They retreat in disorderly fashion.
(b) They make a line.
(c) They begin an orderly retreat.
(d) They are almost all slaughtered.

4. What large complexes are near where the British wait?
(a) Farms.
(b) Industries.
(c) Convents.
(d) Monasteries.

5. What order does Sharpe refuse to take to Halkett?
(a) That Halkett stay in place in his square.
(b) That Halkett's men form a line.
(c) That Halkett move East one mile.
(d) That Halkett retreat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the Prince of Orange?

2. What is the horseman attempting to do?

3. What causes a massacre of those who relieve the defenders of La Haye Sainte?

4. What does Colonel MacDonnell ask Sharpe?

5. How are the British heavy cavalry defeated?

(see the answer key)

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