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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 does Rebecque want of Sharpe?
(a) To take charge of a forward expedition.
(b) Rebecque wants Sharpe to make peace with the Prince.
(c) To be Rebecque's second in a duel.
(d) To lead a small group of soldiers for reconaissance.

2. About what does Rebecque lecture Sharpe?
(a) How to respond to an imbecilic order.
(b) Not to interfere in the duel if no cheating is going on.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Not to risk his life on the recon mission.

3. What abates the Prince of York's excitement?
(a) The French change direction and the Prince's troops do not get to fight.
(b) The Dragoons capture the Prince.
(c) His new warhorse is killed almost immediately.
(d) The first French attack.

4. What do the men under Sharpe's leadership do when they cannot form a square?
(a) Run behind the cavalry as back up.
(b) Run for the high ground to reform.
(c) Retreat to the trees.
(d) Surrender.

5. What does the Prince of Orange do to cover his embarrassment from the previous day?
(a) Blusters his way through planning his army's assignment.
(b) Asks Sharpe about the encounter with Lord Rossendale.
(c) Says the knock on his head addled his brains.
(d) Makes an exaggerated analysis of the allied lines.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Duke of Wellington treat the Prince of Orange?

2. What persists towards the East from where Sharpe and Harper are?

3. What does Sharpe do before returning to Quartre Bras?

4. What order is Sharpe given?

5. What does Colonel MacDonnell ask Sharpe?

(see the answer key)

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