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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe ask Wellesley about his status if he returns from the mission?
(a) If he will be free to leave the army.
(b) If he can be made a sergeant.
(c) If his conviction can be overturned.
(d) If he can marry Mary.

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

3. How long did the battle just over in Chapter 1 last?
(a) Half an hour.
(b) Four hours.
(c) A few minutes.
(d) All day.

4. Who carries out Sharpe's flogging?
(a) Captain Morris.
(b) Green.
(c) Two drummer boys.
(d) Hakeswill.

5. What do McCandless and his Indian escort run into on his way back to the British army?
(a) A force of Tippoo's cavalry.
(b) The Frenchman, Gudin.
(c) A rampaging elephant.
(d) Some Tippoo infantry.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what is Sharpe sentenced at his court-martial?

2. For what is Hakeswill searching among the dead and dying troops?

3. What do Sharpe and Mary talk about concerning the military?

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

5. Who did the preliminary questioning of McCandless?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tippoo execute two men?

2. Why does Sharpe's case for the court-martial look hopeless?

3. How does Hakeswill get Sharpe arrested for a court-martial?

4. Where do the deserters spend their first night, who interrogates them and what do they see in the courtyard the next morning?

5. What does Gudin determine about Sharpe and Lawford and what does he do about Sharpe's wounds?

6. What are the officers discussing at the beginning of Chapter 4 and what is Lawford's suggestion?

7. What does Hakeswill argue with Sharpe about and what does Sharpe say to him?

8. What is Sharpe doing with a dead enemy officer and how does his search end up?

9. What does McCandless encounter on his way back to British forces?

10. Where is Sharpe stationed, why is the British army there and why are the French there?

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