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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fourth Day, Chapters 17 thru 20, Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is happening to the redcoats who have been ordered to lie down?
(a) They are still in reserve.
(b) They are positioned too far to the east to be effective.
(c) A bombardment of cannon.
(d) They are being trampled by the panicked Belgium cavalry.

2. What do the Dutch-Belgian cavalry refuse to do?
(a) Retreat to the west wood and wait for the third French cavalry wave.
(b) Engage the French Cuirassiers.
(c) Clear the ridge face of French skirmishers.
(d) Assist the infantry.

3. What is advancing towards newly-forming British squares?
(a) Regiment after regiment of French cavalry.
(b) The horse artillery.
(c) The Cuirassiers second reserve unit.
(d) The Cuirassiers first and third reserve units.

4. 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.

5. What large complexes are near where the British wait?
(a) Industries.
(b) Convents.
(c) Farms.
(d) Monasteries.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Baron Jean de Constant Rebecque?

3. Who is with Sharpe when he joins the Prince of Orange at Quatre Bras?

4. What happens to Peter d'Alembord?

5. Where is the lone horseman approaching at the opening of chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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