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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the greatest effect of the rockets?
(a) Smoke and Fire.
(b) Noise that scares the horses.
(c) Sharpnel.
(d) Psychological.

2. What is nearly finished?
(a) The British emplacements.
(b) The cannon arrangements on the wall.
(c) The Muslim Ramadan.
(d) Tippoo's black-power mine.

3. What happens to the black-powder mine?
(a) It blasts upward and does little damage.
(b) It blasts as it was designed to do.
(c) It blasts inward instead of outward.
(d) It fizzles out.

4. Where do the British open fire?
(a) They have not yet opened fire as they are waiting for a parley.
(b) On the walls to either side where they plan to breach the city.
(c) At the front gates.
(d) At the Southern wall.

5. Who is Colonel Gudin?
(a) A captured Irish officer.
(b) A captured British officer.
(c) The officer who questions Sharpe and Lawford.
(d) A former British officer who is also a deserter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the officers discussing in General Harris's tent as Chapter 4 opens?

2. Who was Mary's dead husband?

3. What does Tippoo order his jettis to do?

4. What does the British army dig?

5. What does Lawford admire about Sharpe?

(see the answer key)

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