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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wants to marry Mary?
(a) Lawford.
(b) No one.
(c) Kunwar Singh.
(d) Sharpe.

2. What had Sharpe been hoping to do after encountering Hakeswill?
(a) Escape back to England.
(b) Sneak in and free McCandless.
(c) Slip through to see Harris.
(d) Sneak in and kill Gudin.

3. What are Tippoo's primary defenses?
(a) Lancers.
(b) Cannons mounted on the city walls.
(c) Sharpshooters.
(d) Pikemen.

4. What does McCandless decide to teach Sharpe?
(a) To play chess.
(b) To read and write.
(c) To play stones.
(d) To fence.

5. What does Mary still have in her possession?
(a) A bag of gold.
(b) The loaded pistol Rao gave her.
(c) A pardon for Sharpe from General Harris.
(d) A written order from General Harris to Lawford.

6. What are the British doing in the woods?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Cutting trees for siege machines.
(c) Setting up traps.
(d) Setting fire to the trees.

7. Whose name does Sharpe yell out?
(a) Hakeswill.
(b) Lawford.
(c) Pao.
(d) Harris.

8. Where does Sharpe go after hearing someone respond to his yelling?
(a) Into the woods.
(b) Up river.
(c) Back to the city.
(d) Towards the command tents of the British.

9. 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.

10. Who does Hakeswell murder?
(a) Lawford.
(b) Mary.
(c) No one.
(d) A British ensign.

11. What is Sharpe ordered to do after reaching the British?
(a) Surrender.
(b) Issue confusing commands.
(c) Try to capture the General.
(d) Try to capture Harris.

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

13. Who is near Sharpe's discovery in the dungeon?
(a) McCandless.
(b) Mary.
(c) Hakeswill.
(d) Lawford.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe observe at the west gate?

2. What happens while Sharpe and Hakeswill are interacting?

3. What does Mary say is her relationship to Sharpe?

4. What does Tippoo have his jettis do?

5. How long after Sharpe and Langford join the French do the British arrive?

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