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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 Gudin order Sharpe and Lawford to do?
(a) Shoot two British officers.
(b) Stay off the walls.
(c) Go out and parley with the British.
(d) Go down and interrogate McCandless.

2. Who is roaming the halls of the dungeon?
(a) A tiger.
(b) Several jettis.
(c) Hakeswill.
(d) No one.

3. What is Sharpe ordered to do after reaching the British?
(a) Try to capture Harris.
(b) Issue confusing commands.
(c) Surrender.
(d) Try to capture the General.

4. What does McCandless decide to teach Sharpe?
(a) To play chess.
(b) To read and write.
(c) To fence.
(d) To play stones.

5. How does the tiger die?
(a) It does not die; it escapes.
(b) Sharpe shoots it.
(c) Lawford decapitates it.
(d) Mary shoots it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe discover in the dungeon?

2. What does Sharpe ask Mary?

3. What do the British troops do at the end of this chapter?

4. What does Rao give Mary?

5. What does Hakeswill claim to have seen in the city?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tippoo decide to do with Lawford and Sharpe after questioning them?

2. How does Tippoo entertain his troops and what does he plan to do with the British prisoners during the entertainment?

3. What is the first task Gudin has Sharpe and Lawford do and how well do they do it? How does Lawford feel afterward?

4. What does a mill fort do for Tippoo's troops and what does the British do about the mill fort?

5. What are Sharpe and Lawford doing when Gudin comes to arrest them?

6. Why was Sharpe honored and what did he receive?

7. What does Hakeswill do when it comes his turn to be killed?

8. What does Gudin order Sharpe to do to sabotage the British and who does he encounter when he does?

9. Of what do the British and Tippoo's forces consist?

10. Where does Sharpe go after the ceremony, what does he find out and how does he feel about it?

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