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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 does Sharpe do to Rossendale's sword?
(a) Breaks it in the fork of a tree.
(b) Throws it into the heavy brush.
(c) Stabs it upright into the ground.
(d) Stabs Rossendale's foot.

2. What does Sharpe do before returning to Quartre Bras?
(a) Challenge Rossendale to a duel.
(b) Drink a bit too much ale.
(c) Slap the Duchess's daughter.
(d) Insult Jane.

3. What is the horseman attempting to do?
(a) Get close enough to Napoleon to assassinate him.
(b) Inform the allied headquarters if the French have indeed entered Belgium in force.
(c) Be accepted into the French ranks in order to spy.
(d) Desert his post.

4. What is the Duke of Wellington's army doing?
(a) Retreating in an orderly fashion.
(b) Driving West to cut off Napoleon's supply line.
(c) Driving East to cut off Napoleon's supply line.
(d) Advancing to flank Napoleon's heavy cavalry.

5. Who joins the fray who Sharpe and Harper recognize?
(a) The Prince of Wale's Own Volunteers.
(b) The Duke of York's levy.
(c) The Duke of Northampton's levy.
(d) The 94th Riflemen Battalion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Duke of Wellington consider his English cavalry?

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

3. What is given to the general of the French dragoons in Charleroi?

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

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

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