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

2. Who is with Sharpe when he joins the Prince of Orange at Quatre Bras?
(a) Rossendale.
(b) Patrick Harper.
(c) The Prince of Wales.
(d) The 110th Rifle Brigade.

3. How do the British defend against the Cuirassiers?
(a) With their heavy cannons.
(b) In infantry squares.
(c) With their heavy horses.
(d) With their pike lines.

4. From where do Harper and Sharpe withdraw?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Their devastated regiment.
(c) The Prince of Orange.
(d) Quatre Bras.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is the horseman dressed?

3. What do the men under Sharpe's leadership do when they cannot form a square?

4. Where does Sharpe go to report after engaging the French forces in a feint?

5. What happens to the 69th battalion?

(see the answer key)

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