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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. How is the horseman dressed?
(a) In fine, nobleman's clothing.
(b) In a bard's outfit.
(c) Like a monk.
(d) In a medley of different national uniforms.

2. What does Sharpe ponder also?
(a) If he may die on the morrow.
(b) The fact that he now has a writ of divorcement.
(c) About what Peter d'Alembord shares with him the day before.
(d) What to do about Rossendale.

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

4. Who is Christopher Manvell?
(a) The Duke of Wellington's valet.
(b) Sharpe's second in command.
(c) A spy for the British.
(d) Rossendale's friend to whom he tells the truth.

5. Where does Sharpe meet Harper?
(a) At the local inn.
(b) In the officer's mess.
(c) In the stables.
(d) At the Duke's tent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rossendale get separated from his friends?

2. What stops the cavalry advance of the Prince of Orange?

3. Where does the retreating British army take up its position.

4. Who arrives to drive off the French skirmishers?

5. What does Rossendale do when he sees Sharpe coming his way?

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