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

2. Where will all the British cannons be concentrated once the enemy's cannons are taken out where the British plan to enter the city?
(a) In the front as a diversion.
(b) Where they need to open up a wall.
(c) They have not decided yet.
(d) They will probably not fire anymore since they have limited ammunition.

3. Why does McCandless shoot his horse?
(a) The horse stepped in a hole and broke its leg.
(b) To use as a shield.
(c) So Tippoo couldn't add it to his cavalry.
(d) It was fatally wounded.

4. What would happen if all the rockets went off at once?
(a) There are so few, it would hardly be noticed.
(b) The cavalry would probably be ineffective.
(c) Much panic and confusion.
(d) There's is no way of predicting.

5. Who does Hakeswell murder?
(a) Mary.
(b) A British ensign.
(c) No one.
(d) Lawford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sharpe's assessment of the British situation?

2. What is Tippoo watching?

3. Where does Sharpe take Lawford?

4. What kind of weapon does McCandless use?

5. What does Sharpe discover in the dungeon?

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