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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 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 retreat in disorderly fashion.
(c) They begin an orderly retreat.
(d) They make a line.

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

3. What does the Prince of Orange order?
(a) The Hanoverians to advance on La Hay Sainte to recapture it, though it has not been lost.
(b) The light cavalry to charge the garrison position.
(c) Sharpe to take charge of the Hanoverians.
(d) Sharpe to join the forward rifle company.

4. To whom is a note about the French advance delivered?
(a) The Duke of Wellingham.
(b) No one.
(c) General Dornberg.
(d) The King of Belgium.

5. Who rides with the British heavy cavalry?
(a) Sharpe.
(b) Harper.
(c) Lord Rossendale.
(d) The Prince of Orange.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which men are posted to reinforce the garrison defending Hougoumont?

2. Who is Christopher Manvell?

3. Upon whose staff is the horseman?

4. What happens to the Dutch-Belgian guns and infantry?

5. Why might Sharpe not come to the Duchess's home?

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