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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long after Sharpe and Langford join the French do the British arrive?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 6 days.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 4 weeks.

2. What is Sharpe asked to do to prove his sincerity?
(a) Kill Tippoo.
(b) Shoot McCandless.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Kill Lawford.

3. Who is taken prisoner by Tippoo's forces?
(a) Harris.
(b) Littleton.
(c) Hakeswill.
(d) No one.

4. Why would Lawford be deserting?
(a) His family is from India.
(b) He wants to marry Mary.
(c) He is afraid of a flogging.
(d) He has been caught stealing.

5. What are the officers discussing in General Harris's tent as Chapter 4 opens?
(a) Where to attack Tippoo next.
(b) How to break McCandless out of the dungeon.
(c) How to divide their forces.
(d) What to do about Hakeswill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the British army establish camp?

2. What does Sharpe discover in the dungeon?

3. Who was Mary's dead husband?

4. What does Hakeswill attempt to do to Sharpe about his musket?

5. What are in place to deflect cannonballs?

(see the answer key)

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