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

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

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

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

5. When do the French test their rockets?
(a) When the British send in a large sortie.
(b) When a parley team arrives.
(c) When the British are scouting the walls.
(d) They do not test them since they have very few of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary suggest Sharpe do?

2. To where is the British army moving?

3. What does Sharpe ask Mary?

4. What does Sharpe tell McCandless?

5. Who did the preliminary questioning of McCandless?

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