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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lawford say about the rockets on the city walls?
(a) Deadly and extremely accurate.
(b) They are harmless and very inaccurate.
(c) Deadly but inaccurate.
(d) They can do little harm.

2. When do the French test their rockets?
(a) When a parley team arrives.
(b) When the British are scouting the walls.
(c) They do not test them since they have very few of them.
(d) When the British send in a large sortie.

3. What does Sharpe have to prove to win his court-martial case?
(a) That a captain and an ensign are lying.
(b) That Hakeswill was committing a capitol crime.
(c) That Hakeswill shot at him.
(d) That Hakeswill hit him first.

4. What is Hakeswell's scheme?
(a) To discredit Sharpe as a traitor and see him hung.
(b) They do not know his scheme.
(c) To sell Mary into prostitution.
(d) To sell Sharpe to the Muslim slave traders.

5. With whom does Sharpe share a cell?
(a) No one.
(b) Hakeswell.
(c) Lawford and McCandless.
(d) Mary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the British open fire?

2. What does Green give Sharpe to help with the flogging.

3. What is nearly finished?

4. What is the greatest effect of the rockets?

5. For what does Tippoo hope?

(see the answer key)

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