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

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. To what does Sharpe admit which adds to his credentials for the rescue job?
(a) Having been in a dungeon before.
(b) Speaking the language.
(c) Knowing lock picking.
(d) Having knowledge of assassination techniques.

3. Who do Sharpe and Lawford join?
(a) McCandless and Hakeswill.
(b) No one.
(c) Just McCandless.
(d) Just Hakeswill.

4. What is Tippoo watching?
(a) The British prepare for an attack.
(b) His tigers kill a British soldier.
(c) One of his jettis wrestle with a tiger.
(d) The torture of a British soldier by a jetti.

5. What does Mary suggest Sharpe do?
(a) Formally request to marry her.
(b) Get her pregnant so the army will let him marry her.
(c) Take her into his tent to live.
(d) Desert the army and run away with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the British doing in the woods?

2. Why do McCandless and Sharpe pretend to be at odds?

3. Who wants to marry Mary?

4. What would happen if all the rockets went off at once?

5. Who are the Forlorn Hopes?

(see the answer key)

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