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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Tippoo decide to do with Sharpe and Lawford?
(a) Give them to his tigers.
(b) Put them in the dungeon.
(c) Forgive them.
(d) Hang them.

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

4. What are Sharpe and Mary discussing when Gudin arrives?
(a) Sharpe's decision to leave the army when his tour is up.
(b) Mary's decision not to marry Sharpe.
(c) Sharpe's decision to come behind enemy lines.
(d) Mary's decision to marry an enemy.

5. What does Hakeswill claim to have seen in the city?
(a) A British officer.
(b) A dead jetti.
(c) A French spy.
(d) A French deserter.

6. What does Tippoo do for the brave soldiers on his side?
(a) Lets them go home to their families.
(b) Promotes them.
(c) Gives them leave.
(d) Honors them.

7. Why can't Gudin help Sharpe?
(a) Sharpe is Tippoo's prisoner.
(b) It would cross the bounds of what an advisor is to do.
(c) Sharpe has admitted his role.
(d) He can help them if he wants.

8. What is Sharpe's assessment of the British situation?
(a) Bad.
(b) Great.
(c) About usual for what they are trying to do.
(d) Uncertain.

9. What does Sharpe discuss with Lawford and McCandless?
(a) The British situation.
(b) The pile of rockets.
(c) The kegs of powder.
(d) The tiger.

10. Why does Sharpe ignite the fuse of the mine?
(a) So the British can find them after seeing the explosion.
(b) He does not.
(c) So to burn off the fuse so the mine cannot be lit.
(d) So it will explode before the British arrive.

11. At whom is a volley of musket fire directed?
(a) The squad of British soldiers.
(b) Sharpe.
(c) Hakeswill.
(d) Harris.

12. Who is roaming the halls of the dungeon?
(a) A tiger.
(b) No one.
(c) Several jettis.
(d) Hakeswill.

13. Who demands to accompany Rao's men?
(a) Singh.
(b) McCandless.
(c) Mary.
(d) Sharpe.

14. How many rockets does Sharpe think the French have?
(a) Just a few dozen.
(b) Thousands.
(c) A few hundred.
(d) Ten or fifteen.

15. What message did Sharpe want to give the British?
(a) To attack right after the sun rises in the east.
(b) To attack while the sun was low in the west.
(c) Not to attack the West wall.
(d) To attack before noon the next day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tippoo order his jettis to do?

2. What does Mary still have in her possession?

3. What does Mary teach the General's children?

4. Who is taken prisoner by Tippoo's forces?

5. What group never lacks for volunteers?

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