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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the officers discuss back at the British encampment?
(a) If Mary will be able to translate the French documents.
(b) The changes that have occurred since the departure of Shapre and Lawford.
(c) If Lawford and Sharpe are still alive.
(d) Whether Lawford and Shapre were convincing as deserters.

2. Why do the officers Sharpe will be a convincing deserter?
(a) He comes from the lower class.
(b) He is Irish.
(c) He has a scar on his face.
(d) He has flogging wounds.

3. What is Richard Sharpe's rank in Chapter 1?
(a) Captain.
(b) Corporal.
(c) Sergeant.
(d) Private.

4. What do Sharpe and Mary talk about concerning the military?
(a) Him becoming a sergeant.
(b) When his enlistment term is over.
(c) Where is unit is heading next.
(d) Whether he will take her back to England with the army.

5. Who are the Forlorn Hopes?
(a) The prisoners of Tippoo.
(b) The cavalry who will not be useful in this fight.
(c) The gurkhas who are fighting with the British.
(d) The first wave of soldiers to enter a breach.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe have to prove to win his court-martial case?

2. What does Mary still have in her possession?

3. What do Rao's men find at the dungeon?

4. Who fights the jettis?

5. Why is Sharpe fighting in India?

(see the answer key)

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