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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Second Day, Chapters 7 thru 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why might Sharpe not come to the Duchess's home?
(a) He is ill.
(b) He does not enjoy social functions.
(c) He is busy counter attacking the Dragoons.
(d) He knows Rossendale is in town.

2. Who is with Sharpe when he joins the Prince of Orange at Quatre Bras?
(a) The 110th Rifle Brigade.
(b) Rossendale.
(c) Patrick Harper.
(d) The Prince of Wales.

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

4. Who accompanies Sharpe to Quatre Bras?
(a) No one.
(b) A civilian guide.
(c) An eighteen-year-old, Lieutenant Simon Doggett.
(d) A Belgium sharpshooter.

5. What dinner do Harper and Sharpe share?
(a) Beef jerky.
(b) Roasted pig.
(c) Roasted horse meat.
(d) Hard biscuits and dried pork.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the 69th battalion?

2. Who captures the 69th battalion's colours?

3. Who arrives at Quatre Bras with the British Light Cavalry?

4. How might the pace of the Prussian Major who is taking news to Brussels be described?

5. Who loses all the ground he has captured?

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