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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 Lucille most afraid of as she says goodbye to Sharpe?
(a) Having to go back to England unwed and pregnant if Sharpe dies.
(b) Sharpe getting killed.
(c) A British defeat and the French marching into Brussels.
(d) Rossendale taking out his hatred of Sharpe on Lucille.

2. 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.

3. Why do the Belgian cavalry flee?
(a) They do not like the Prince of Orange.
(b) They had belonged to the French cavalry the year previously.
(c) They secretly root for Napoleon's victory.
(d) They are afraid to attack the more experienced French cavalry.

4. What order does Sharpe refuse to take to Halkett?
(a) That Halkett's men form a line.
(b) That Halkett move East one mile.
(c) That Halkett stay in place in his square.
(d) That Halkett retreat.

5. What do Harper and Sharpe contemplate?
(a) Whether to lodge an official complaint against the Prince of Orange.
(b) What they should do next.
(c) Whether to retire from the military.
(d) Whether to request reassignment to an English brigade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe ponder also?

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

3. What does the Prince of Orange order?

4. What is the Duke of Wellington's army doing?

5. Where do the French retreat?

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