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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is chained in the courtyard where McCandless is standing?
(a) Ten Indian slaves.
(b) Four elephants.
(c) Six large tigers.
(d) Two British officers.

2. Who is watching Sharpe and Mary talk?
(a) Hakeswill.
(b) Sergeant Green.
(c) Lieutenant Lawford.
(d) Captain Morris.

3. Why is Sharpe fighting in India?
(a) The British have just invaded India.
(b) The Indians have killed a British Duke.
(c) The British are trying to take Pakistan.
(d) To break resistance to British rule.

4. To what is Sharpe sentenced at his court-martial?
(a) Confinement in prison, a flogging and dishonorable discharge.
(b) Five hundred stroke flogging.
(c) One year in jail and one year wages fine and a flogging.
(d) Two thousand stroke flogging.

5. Why is the Frenchman Gudin with Tippoo?
(a) He has been taken captive.
(b) He believes in India independence.
(c) He is Tippoo's brother-in-law.
(d) He is an advisor from the French.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who carries out Sharpe's flogging?

2. What do McCandless and his Indian escort run into on his way back to the British army?

3. To where is the British army moving?

4. Why does McCandless shoot his horse?

5. How does Sharpe feel about Mary's suggestion?

(see the answer key)

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