View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Sharpe go to report after engaging the French forces in a feint?
(a) Quartre Bras.
(b) He stays to keep track of the French army.
(c) The Prince of Orange's headquarters.
(d) Brussels.

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

3. About what is the Duke of Wellington worried?
(a) His wife's pregnancy.
(b) Getting back to England.
(c) The quality and numbers of his troops.
(d) His daughter's illness.

4. What is the result of the Prince of Orange's failure to order the Hanoverian line into squares?
(a) They are almost all slaughtered.
(b) They make a line.
(c) They begin an orderly retreat.
(d) They retreat in disorderly fashion.

5. What is a backdrop to the possibility of a battle in the morning?
(a) The sound of sabers being sharpened.
(b) The menacing weather.
(c) The sound of men having bad dreams.
(d) The sounds of cannons firing for alignment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lucille most afraid of as she says goodbye to Sharpe?

2. What is von Bulow's Fourth corp supposed to do?

3. How are the Brunswickers identified?

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

5. To whom is a note about the French advance delivered?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 300 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample