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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fourth Day, Chapters 13 thru 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What dinner do Harper and Sharpe share?
(a) Beef jerky.
(b) Hard biscuits and dried pork.
(c) Roasted pig.
(d) Roasted horse meat.

2. Who launches a full scale cavalry charge to keep the British from forming squares again?
(a) Napoleon.
(b) Lafayette.
(c) Marshal Ney.
(d) Kellerman.

3. What is the Emperor's signal to start the battle?
(a) Three cannon shots.
(b) A 21 gun rifle salute.
(c) A dozen bugle tones.
(d) A single cannon shot.

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

5. Why do the Belgian cavalry flee?
(a) They do not like the Prince of Orange.
(b) They had belonged to the French cavalry the year previously.
(c) They secretly root for Napoleon's victory.
(d) They are afraid to attack the more experienced French cavalry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Duchess of Richmond preparing to give?

2. Why does Sharpe go over to Rossendale?

3. Why is the Duchess apprehensive of Rossendale being at her home?

4. How are the French Dragoons received by the Belgium people?

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

(see the answer key)

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