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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 do the deserters notice about where they are taken?
(a) It is quite noisy.
(b) It is highly fortified.
(c) There are lots of civilians.
(d) It is almost deserted of soldiers.

2. What does Hakeswill attempt to do to Sharpe about his musket?
(a) Make Sharpe look foolish.
(b) Entrap him into a flogging offense.
(c) Get him killed when it fires inaccurately.
(d) Make him lose it when the strap breaks.

3. What does Sergeant Green tell Sharpe?
(a) He will ensure Mary is safe.
(b) He will do the flogging himself and go easy.
(c) He will chose the smallest boys for the flogging.
(d) He will appear the case.

4. How did the enemy officer die that Sharpe is searching?
(a) Sharpe put his bayonet through the heart.
(b) He was kicked in the head by a horse.
(c) He bayoneted him in the throat.
(d) A musket ball in the heart.

5. What do the officers decide that Lawford will pose as?
(a) A wronged officer.
(b) A timid clerk.
(c) An ex-lieutenant who is now a private.
(d) A racketeer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what circumstances may a British soldier strike a superior?

2. What does Gudin suggest about McCandless to Tippoo?

3. Where are the deserters locked?

4. Why does McCandless shoot his horse?

5. How many strokes did Sharpe get before the flogging was stopped?

Short Essay Questions

1. What nationality is Mary and what do she and Sharpe talk about when he joins her after the battle? To whom was Mary married when she became a widow?

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

3. Who is with McCandless when he arrives at the courtyard and what does he demand Sharpe do? How did Sharpe's actions turn out?

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

5. What does the British do to advance on Tippoo and why are Tippoo's tactics poor?

6. How does Tippoo execute two men?

7. Where do the lancers take Lawford and Sharpe and what do the two men see as they enter there?

8. What do Hector McCandless and Appah Rao do when they meet?

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

10. How does the battle end up between the British and Tippoo, and what does Gudin have to say about it?

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