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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who takes a liking to Mary?
(a) Lakshmi.
(b) Lawford.
(c) Gudin.
(d) General Rao.

2. What is Hakeswell's scheme?
(a) They do not know his scheme.
(b) To sell Mary into prostitution.
(c) To discredit Sharpe as a traitor and see him hung.
(d) To sell Sharpe to the Muslim slave traders.

3. What is the approximately number of the British forces?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 6,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 750.

4. What happens while Sharpe and Hakeswill are interacting?
(a) Hakeswill knocks Sharpe off his horse.
(b) Sharpe knocks Hakeswill off his horse.
(c) A squad of British soldiers arrive.
(d) A rocket explodes very near them.

5. What happens when Sharpe encounters Hakeswill?
(a) They exchange information.
(b) They begin to fight.
(c) Sharpe gives Hakes will a rocket so the British can see what they're up against.
(d) Sharpe asks Hakeswill where Harris is.

6. What does Gudin order Sharpe and Lawford to do?
(a) Stay off the walls.
(b) Go out and parley with the British.
(c) Shoot two British officers.
(d) Go down and interrogate McCandless.

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

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

9. For what does Tippoo hope?
(a) An early monsoon rain.
(b) That Sharpe really is on his side.
(c) A parley with the British.
(d) A clear day for the attack.

10. What does Sharpe receive from Tippoo?
(a) A new rifle.
(b) A silver sword hilt.
(c) A large, gold medallion.
(d) Gold gilt for his sword pommel.

11. Who orders Sharpe to ride out towards the British?
(a) Gudin.
(b) Lawford.
(c) Rao.
(d) Hakewill.

12. How long after Sharpe and Langford join the French do the British arrive?
(a) 4 days.
(b) 6 days.
(c) 4 weeks.
(d) 2 weeks.

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

14. Who does Rao rescue from the dungeon?
(a) Mary.
(b) Sharpe.
(c) Hakeswill.
(d) McCandless.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where will all the British cannons be concentrated once the enemy's cannons are taken out where the British plan to enter the city?

2. What does Tippoo decide to do with Sharpe and Lawford?

3. What does Tippoo order his jettis to do?

4. What is Sharpe's assessment of the British situation?

5. What do Rao's men find at the dungeon?

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