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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lieutenant Lawford suggest?
(a) Sending Sharpe and Mary.
(b) Posing as a deserter to get into the city.
(c) Having Ravi Shekhar do the job.
(d) Sending Hakeswill.

2. What does Sharpe ask Wellesley about his status if he returns from the mission?
(a) If he can marry Mary.
(b) If he can be made a sergeant.
(c) If his conviction can be overturned.
(d) If he will be free to leave the army.

3. Why is the Frenchman Gudin with Tippoo?
(a) He is an advisor from the French.
(b) He believes in India independence.
(c) He has been taken captive.
(d) He is Tippoo's brother-in-law.

4. Who carries out Sharpe's flogging?
(a) Captain Morris.
(b) Two drummer boys.
(c) Green.
(d) Hakeswill.

5. Why is a doctor called for?
(a) To treat the men for lice.
(b) To check the men for illness.
(c) To treat Sharpe's wounds.
(d) To chekc the men for hidden weapons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary suggest Sharpe do?

2. What do the other officers think of Lawford's idea?

3. Of what is the tripod Sharpe is tied to made?

4. How did the enemy officer die that Sharpe is searching?

5. Why is Sharpe fighting in India?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does McCandless see at Seringapatam and what is his hope?

2. Where do the lancers take Lawford and Sharpe and what do the two men see as they enter there?

3. Who is with McCandless when he arrives at the courtyard and what does he demand Sharpe do? How did Sharpe's actions turn out?

4. What are the officers discussing at the beginning of Chapter 4 and what is Lawford's suggestion?

5. What does Gudin determine about Sharpe and Lawford and what does he do about Sharpe's wounds?

6. What do Hector McCandless and Appah Rao do when they meet?

7. How does Tippoo execute two men?

8. What does Sharpe tell Lawford about the events of the morning in the courtyard?

9. Where is Sharpe stationed, why is the British army there and why are the French there?

10. What does Sergeant Hakeswill do while they are marching and how does his action affect Sharpe?

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