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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. To what unit is Sharpe assigned?
(a) Fourth Battalion.
(b) Thirty-third Regiment.
(c) Fourteenth Regiment.
(d) Twenty-second Regiment.

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

3. To what is Sharpe sentenced at his court-martial?
(a) Five hundred stroke flogging.
(b) Confinement in prison, a flogging and dishonorable discharge.
(c) One year in jail and one year wages fine and a flogging.
(d) Two thousand stroke flogging.

4. Who did the preliminary questioning of McCandless?
(a) The Havildar.
(b) Gudin.
(c) Appah Rao.
(d) General Pachimpu.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mcandless tell to escape?

2. Why is Hakeswill thinking about Mary Bickerstaff?

3. What does Sharpe talk about with another soldier in Chapter 1?

4. About what are Sharpe and Lawson questioned?

5. Why does Gudin suggest showing mercy to British prisoners is a good idea?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sergeant Hakeswill do while they are marching and how does his action affect Sharpe?

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

3. When do Lawford and Sharpe depart, who joins them and why does Sharpe take charge of the mission?

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

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

6. To what duties are Sharpe, Lawford and Mary assigned?

7. 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?

8. What does Sharpe do about his and Mary's conversation?

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

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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