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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Sharpe feel about Mary's suggestion?
(a) He thinks she will end up getting killed.
(b) He thinks it is a good idea.
(c) He does not think it would work.
(d) He is ambivalent about it.

3. To where is the British army moving?
(a) Katmanpu.
(b) Delhi.
(c) Langstrom.
(d) Seringapatam.

4. Why is Hakeswill thinking about Mary Bickerstaff?
(a) He is interested in her.
(b) He wants Sharpe to marry her.
(c) She has offered him money to take her home.
(d) She bandaged a wound of his.

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

6. What does McCandless say to Sharpe?
(a) That McCandless has already arranged his own rescue.
(b) That Tippoo has given the enemy information.
(c) That he doesn't want rescued by one such as Sharpe.
(d) That the British should not attempt to breach the west wall.

7. Why does Sharpe take control of the mission?
(a) Lawford is supposed to be timid.
(b) Lawford doesn't know the language.
(c) Sharpe is better at this type of mission.
(d) Lawford is supposed to be an officer.

8. Who did the preliminary questioning of McCandless?
(a) General Pachimpu.
(b) Gudin.
(c) The Havildar.
(d) Appah Rao.

9. How many volleys do the British fire before charging Tippoo's troops?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

10. Why does Hakeswill leave Sharpe?
(a) Sharpe punches him.
(b) Sharpe tells him he is going to kill him.
(c) Sharpe denies any interest in Mary.
(d) Sharpe gives him some money.

11. What has Tippoo ordered to be placed between the inner and outer city walls?
(a) A massive black powder mine.
(b) Captured British cannons.
(c) Thousands of infantry troops.
(d) Artillery.

12. To what unit is Sharpe assigned?
(a) Twenty-second Regiment.
(b) Fourth Battalion.
(c) Fourteenth Regiment.
(d) Thirty-third Regiment.

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

14. What does Sharpe tell Lawford about the gunpowder in the musket he was to use to shoot McCandless?
(a) Nothing.
(b) It wasn't really gunpowder.
(c) It was cut with too much sodium.
(d) It was wet.

15. What do the deserters notice about where they are taken?
(a) It is highly fortified.
(b) There are lots of civilians.
(c) It is quite noisy.
(d) It is almost deserted of soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is chained in the courtyard where McCandless is standing?

2. Who are Lawford and Sharpe suppose to contact in the city?

3. How many are in the British firing line they array against Tippoo's troops in Chapter 1?

4. What type of weapon is Hakeswill carrying?

5. What does Gudin prefer for executions?

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