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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The First Day, Chapters 1 thru 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe order Doggett to do?
(a) To return to Quatre Bras to inform Saxe-Weimar.
(b) To get to Brussels to report to the Duke of Wellington.
(c) To disguise himself as a Belgium peasant.
(d) To go around to one side of the force as Sharpe goes to the other.

2. Why might Sharpe not come to the Duchess's home?
(a) He is busy counter attacking the Dragoons.
(b) He knows Rossendale is in town.
(c) He is ill.
(d) He does not enjoy social functions.

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

4. Upon whose staff is the horseman?
(a) The Prince of Orange.
(b) No one's.
(c) The Prince of Wales.
(d) The Prince of Belgium.

5. Where does Sharpe go to report after engaging the French forces in a feint?
(a) The Prince of Orange's headquarters.
(b) Quartre Bras.
(c) Brussels.
(d) He stays to keep track of the French army.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the horseman attempting to do?

2. What do Sharpe and Rebecque draft in Chapter 5?

3. Why is the Duchess apprehensive of Rossendale being at her home?

4. How are the French Dragoons received by the Belgium people?

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

(see the answer key)

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