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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Third Day, Chapters, 10 thru 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is given to the general of the French dragoons in Charleroi?
(a) A map showing the English gun emplacements.
(b) A bunch of violets.
(c) A 21-gun salute.
(d) Misleading information.

2. How are the French Dragoons received by the Belgium people?
(a) The Dragoons are welcomed.
(b) The Dragoons are fired upon.
(c) Some welcome the Dragoons, but most revile them.
(d) The Dragoons are ignored.

3. How does the Duke of Wellington consider his English cavalry?
(a) As sensitive, undisciplined and prone to moments of insanity.
(b) As so incompetent they jeopardize other units.
(c) As fine horsemen but terrible marksmen.
(d) As his finest soldiers.

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

5. Who does Sharpe wonder about atoning to for his insubordination?
(a) The Prince of Orange.
(b) The Duke of Wellington.
(c) The Duke of York.
(d) The Prince of Wales.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Wellington promised Blucher?

2. Who captures the 69th battalion's colours?

3. How does Blucher's Prussian army fare the day before?

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

5. Who do Doggett and Sharpe see as they are leaving the Quatre Bras area?

(see the answer key)

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