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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Tippoo ordered to be placed between the inner and outer city walls?
(a) Thousands of infantry troops.
(b) A massive black powder mine.
(c) Captured British cannons.
(d) Artillery.

2. What is Sharpe contemplating at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Death.
(b) Desertion.
(c) How much money he can find.
(d) He's thinking about women.

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

4. Where does Rao and McCandless determine is a place where the British should not attack Tippoo's city?
(a) Through the main gates.
(b) At the tower on the north.
(c) At the western wall.
(d) By the eastern gate.

5. What type of weapon is Hakeswill carrying?
(a) A musket and bayonet.
(b) A sword.
(c) A knife and a pistol.
(d) A halberd.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is watching Sharpe and Mary talk?

2. How long did the battle just over in Chapter 1 last?

3. Why is the Frenchman Gudin with Tippoo?

4. What is the main reason the British win the battle against Tippoo in Chapter 1 so quickly?

5. For what is Hakeswill searching among the dead and dying troops?

(see the answer key)

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