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

2. What does Napoleon do in the East?
(a) Attacks Blucher's Prussian army.
(b) Defeats the Dutch artillery.
(c) Withdraws his cavalry.
(d) Nothing.

3. Who is Lucille?
(a) Sharpe's new wife.
(b) Sharpe's mistress.
(c) The Duchess of Richmond's handmaiden.
(d) Sharpe's sister-in-law.

4. What order does Sharpe refuse to take to Halkett?
(a) That Halkett move East one mile.
(b) That Halkett retreat.
(c) That Halkett stay in place in his square.
(d) That Halkett's men form a line.

5. What must Sharpe do by the Prince of Orange's orders?
(a) Take a force of riflemen to flank the Dragoons.
(b) Attend a ball in Brussels and wear a Dutch uniform.
(c) Reconcile with Rossendale.
(d) Stay with the Prince and not go out to the front lines.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what is the Duke of Wellington worried?

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

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

4. What happens to the 69th battalion?

5. What does the bugle call the French to do?

(see the answer key)

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