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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 tell Rebecque to do?
(a) Call for his personal guards.
(b) Kill Sharpe.
(c) Get Duke Wellington.
(d) Arrest Sharpe.

2. What is wearing down the British regiments holding the ridge?
(a) The Imperial Guard.
(b) Light arms sharpshooters.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) French cannon.

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

4. Where do Sharpe and Harper travel with other officers and staff?
(a) With the reserves in the north.
(b) Towards the French army's left flank.
(c) The road south to the crossroads at Mont-St-Jean.
(d) Towards the French army's right flank.

5. How does Blucher's Prussian army fare the day before?
(a) Blucher is killed but the army is completely intact.
(b) Utterly destroyed.
(c) Defeated but not destroyed.
(d) Most of the Prussians deserted and are on their way home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lord John Rossendale?

2. How are Napoleon's men dressed?

3. Just as the British are about to celebrate, what happens?

4. What does Lieutenant Simon Bloggett want of Sharpe?

5. What does Wellington order the Earl of Uxbridge to do?

(see the answer key)

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