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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 has Tippoo ordered to be placed between the inner and outer city walls?
(a) Captured British cannons.
(b) A massive black powder mine.
(c) Thousands of infantry troops.
(d) Artillery.

2. Why does Hakeswill challenge Sharpe while they are marching?
(a) For having blood on his bayonet.
(b) For marching out of step.
(c) For talking in the ranks.
(d) For his musket being carried on the wrong shoulder.

3. How does Sharpe feel about Mary's suggestion?
(a) He is ambivalent about it.
(b) He thinks it is a good idea.
(c) He does not think it would work.
(d) He thinks she will end up getting killed.

4. Why is the city to where the British are moving important?
(a) It is the center of most of the trade routes.
(b) It is the largest population center in southern India.
(c) The king of India lives there.
(d) It is the capitol of Mysore.

5. What does Hakeswill do to Sharpe's musket?
(a) Bend the trigger.
(b) Scratch the inside of the barrel to throw off the aim.
(c) Replace the flint with an ordinary stone.
(d) Cut the strap almost all the way through.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sharpe find money on the officer he is searching?

2. What does Tippoo use to execute two men?

3. Why does Hakeswill argue with Sharpe about Mary?

4. Who halts Sharpe's flogging before it is finished?

5. What connection does Rao have with Tippoo?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Sharpe's punishment carried out and how does it stop?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is Sharpe observing at the beginning of Chapter 1, and what is his position in the British army? What is he thinking about at the beginning of Chapter 1?

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

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

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