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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the officers decide that Lawford will pose as?
(a) A wronged officer.
(b) An ex-lieutenant who is now a private.
(c) A timid clerk.
(d) A racketeer.

2. Who was Mary's dead husband?
(a) A sergeant in the English army.
(b) An officer in the Indian army.
(c) A sergeant in the Indian army.
(d) A rice farmer.

3. Why does Hakeswill challenge Sharpe while they are marching?
(a) For marching out of step.
(b) For having blood on his bayonet.
(c) For talking in the ranks.
(d) For his musket being carried on the wrong shoulder.

4. Why does Hakeswill leave Sharpe?
(a) Sharpe tells him he is going to kill him.
(b) Sharpe punches him.
(c) Sharpe denies any interest in Mary.
(d) Sharpe gives him some money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what circumstances may a British soldier strike a superior?

2. Who are Lawford and Sharpe suppose to contact in the city?

3. What connection does Rao have with Tippoo?

4. Who did the preliminary questioning of McCandless?

5. Why is Hakeswill thinking about Mary Bickerstaff?

(see the answer key)

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