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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the British troops do at the end of this chapter?
(a) File into the network of trenches.
(b) Eat a hearty meal.
(c) Sit and wait in formation.
(d) Write letters home.

2. Who do three jettis confront?
(a) Hakeswell back in his cell.
(b) The Forlorn Hopes.
(c) The escaping prisoners.
(d) No one; they are buried under the debris of the dungeon's collapse.

3. Who carries out Sharpe's flogging?
(a) Hakeswill.
(b) Two drummer boys.
(c) Captain Morris.
(d) Green.

4. What does Major General Baird order?
(a) That Sharpe is to get promoted to officer status if he is successful.
(b) That Lawford is to be shot in the upcoming battle.
(c) That Sharpe is to be taken alive in the upcoming battle.
(d) That several men try to rescue Mary.

5. What does the British army dig?
(a) A network of zigzag trenches.
(b) A moat.
(c) Burial mounds.
(d) A clean well.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tippoo allow Sharpe and Lawford to do?

2. Whose name does Sharpe yell out?

3. Where does Sharpe drag Hakeswill?

4. To what is Sharpe sentenced at his court-martial?

5. What do the deserters notice about where they are taken?

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