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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. Why does McCandless shoot his horse?
(a) It was fatally wounded.
(b) To use as a shield.
(c) The horse stepped in a hole and broke its leg.
(d) So Tippoo couldn't add it to his cavalry.

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

3. How many are in the British firing line they array against Tippoo's troops in Chapter 1?
(a) Seven hundred.
(b) Two thousand.
(c) Four hundred.
(d) A thousand.

4. Why do McCandless and Sharpe pretend to be at odds?
(a) To convince Gudin that they hate each other.
(b) So they can wrestle on the ground and pass information.
(c) They do not pretend anything.
(d) It is no pretense as they do hate each other.

5. What does Mary suggest Sharpe do?
(a) Desert the army and run away with her.
(b) Get her pregnant so the army will let him marry her.
(c) Formally request to marry her.
(d) Take her into his tent to live.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is watching Sharpe and Mary talk?

2. How many times has Sharpe seen action?

3. Why is Sharpe fighting in India?

4. Where does McCandless wait for Appah Rao?

5. Where does Rao and McCandless determine is a place where the British should not attack Tippoo's city?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. What does McCandless see at Seringapatam and what is his hope?

8. How do the other officers feel about Lawford suggesting Sharpe accompany him on the mission?

9. What is the plan for Lawford and Sharpe, and what will they do when they get into the city?

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

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