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

2. What month of the year is it when the story opens?
(a) April.
(b) September.
(c) June.
(d) December.

3. What does Jane discover?
(a) She is dying.
(b) She is homesick for England.
(c) She truly loves Sharpe.
(d) She is pregnant.

4. What is one group that is part of the Duke of Wellington's troops?
(a) The Russian Cossack cavalry.
(b) The Wale's sharpshooters.
(c) The Irish Third Artillery.
(d) The King's German Legion.

5. Why do the Prince of Orange's men refuse to follow him to attack the French cannon?
(a) The mastiffs are ringed around the cannons.
(b) They have to ride through a grass fire to get there.
(c) There are several smaller cannons trained on them.
(d) A brigade of French light cavalry has appeared.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the horseman identified as?

2. Who is with Sharpe when he joins the Prince of Orange at Quatre Bras?

3. How do the British defend against the Cuirassiers?

4. What does the horseman's hat look like?

5. Who arrives at Quatre Bras with the British Light Cavalry?

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