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

2. Why does Sharpe go over to Rossendale?
(a) To tell Rossendale he withdraws his challenge.
(b) To tell him orders from the Duke of Wellington.
(c) To help him as he is fighting three soldiers.
(d) To confront Rossendale.

3. What is von Bulow's Fourth corp supposed to do?
(a) Lead an advance on Waterloo to fight side by side with Wellington.
(b) Hold in reserve.
(c) Lead the 2nd wave after the sharpshooters.
(d) Move forward to feint an attack and draw the heavy cavalry to the left flank of Wellington's army.

4. What do Sharpe and Rebecque draft in Chapter 5?
(a) An order for Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, ostensibly from the Prince of Orange.
(b) A herd of horses for their cavalry.
(c) A group of Belgium farmers.
(d) A letter releasing Rossendale from service.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Rebecque lecture Sharpe?

2. Where do Sharpe and Harper watch the attack by the French skirmishers?

3. Where do Sharpe and Harper travel with other officers and staff?

4. What does Rossendale resolve to do the next day?

5. What does Bonaparte consider the enemy to be?

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