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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Third Day, Chapters, 10 thru 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one group that is part of the Duke of Wellington's troops?
(a) The King's German Legion.
(b) The Irish Third Artillery.
(c) The Wale's sharpshooters.
(d) The Russian Cossack cavalry.

2. Why is the Duchess apprehensive of Rossendale being at her home?
(a) Because Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe will be there and Rossendale's mistress is Sharpe's unfaithful wife, Jane.
(b) Because Napoleon will kill her if he finds out.
(c) Because he would be disobeying orders to come there.
(d) She is not apprehensive.

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

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

5. What premonition scares one of Sharpe's friends?
(a) That he will die soon.
(b) That the friend will turn coward and run.
(c) That Sharpe will do something important in the upcoming battle but will be killed.
(d) That Napoleon will be defeated here.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the Prussians located?

2. What impedes the French cavalry from overtaking the British?

3. What happens when Halkett obeys the Prince of Orange's orders?

4. Who protects the British horse artillery?

5. What month of the year is it when the story opens?

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