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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Sharpe and Lawford do to show they are deserters?
(a) Dye their pants black.
(b) Change into civilian clothes.
(c) Wear white scarfs.
(d) Turn their uniform jackets inside out.

2. What type of weapon is Hakeswill carrying?
(a) A halberd.
(b) A musket and bayonet.
(c) A sword.
(d) A knife and a pistol.

3. What does Sharpe tell McCandless?
(a) That Sharpe is there on orders from Harris.
(b) That he is wants revenge on Gudin.
(c) That McCandless is lucky Sharpe is a poor shot.
(d) That Sharpe is going to make McCandless' life miserable.

4. Where is McCandless taken?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) To the Rjah Particupam's palace.
(c) To a dungeon in New Delli.
(d) Seringapatam.

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

6. 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.

7. Why does Hakeswill argue with Sharpe about Mary?
(a) Sharpe won't marry her.
(b) She wants to marry Hakeswill.
(c) He thinks Sharpe has romantic interests in her.
(d) He wants Sharpe out of the way so he can rape her.

8. What does Hakeswill goad Sharpe into doing?
(a) Marrying Mary.
(b) Deserting.
(c) Hitting Captain Morris.
(d) Hitting Hakeswill.

9. What does Sharpe talk about with another soldier in Chapter 1?
(a) The hot climate.
(b) Returning to England.
(c) Sergeant Hakeswill.
(d) The number of dead soldiers.

10. What does Gudin suggest about McCandless to Tippoo?
(a) That McCandless was foraging for food.
(b) That McCandless is a spy.
(c) That McCandless wants to join Tippoo.
(d) That McCandless is a deserter.

11. Who does Mcandless tell to escape?
(a) His sergeant, McMasters.
(b) The Indian escort.
(c) Appah Rao.
(d) The Havildar.

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

13. What happens when Sharpe pulls the trigger on the musket?
(a) It wounds McCandless.
(b) It wounds Lawford.
(c) It fails to fire.
(d) It wounds Tippoo.

14. What does Tippoo use to execute two men?
(a) His sword.
(b) His Jettis.
(c) His tigers.
(d) Four horses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harris think of Sharpe going with Lawford?

2. What does Sergeant Green tell Sharpe?

3. What does Sharpe tell Lawford about the gunpowder in the musket he was to use to shoot McCandless?

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

5. Where does McCandless wait for Appah Rao?

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