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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 the horseman's hat look like?
(a) It is dressed with a band with the Russian colors.
(b) Like an English officer's hat.
(c) It shows the scarlet, gold, and black cockade of the Netherlands.
(d) Like it has been shot.

2. What abates the Prince of York's excitement?
(a) His new warhorse is killed almost immediately.
(b) The Dragoons capture the Prince.
(c) The French change direction and the Prince's troops do not get to fight.
(d) The first French attack.

3. What does Sharpe do before returning to Quartre Bras?
(a) Drink a bit too much ale.
(b) Challenge Rossendale to a duel.
(c) Slap the Duchess's daughter.
(d) Insult Jane.

4. Who arrives to drive off the French skirmishers?
(a) The 110th Sharpshooters Regiment.
(b) Cavalry under the Prince of Orange.
(c) No one.
(d) The Duke of Weston's cavalry.

5. Who are the Cuirassiers?
(a) A band of pirates who have thrown in with the French.
(b) The "big brothers" of the French army on heavy horses.
(c) The Dutch special lance brigade.
(d) The French pikemen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon whose staff is the horseman?

2. Who launches a full scale cavalry charge to keep the British from forming squares again?

3. What does Napoleon do in the East?

4. About what is the Duke of Wellington worried?

5. What do Harper and Sharpe contemplate?

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