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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 Mary?
(a) If General Rao's intentions are honorable.
(b) If she has a gun.
(c) If Singh can be trusted.
(d) What is happening outside.

2. With whom does Sharpe share a cell?
(a) Mary.
(b) No one.
(c) Lawford and McCandless.
(d) Hakeswell.

3. Of what are the British officers certain?
(a) That artillery will harm more civilians than soldiers.
(b) That the outer walls will be breached.
(c) That Sharpe will probably be killed in the battle anyway.
(d) That Lawford is loyal.

4. What does Tippoo decide to do with Sharpe and Lawford?
(a) Hang them.
(b) Forgive them.
(c) Give them to his tigers.
(d) Put them in the dungeon.

5. Where will all the British cannons be concentrated once the enemy's cannons are taken out where the British plan to enter the city?
(a) They will probably not fire anymore since they have limited ammunition.
(b) In the front as a diversion.
(c) Where they need to open up a wall.
(d) They have not decided yet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does McCandless decide to teach Sharpe?

2. What do the British troops do at the end of this chapter?

3. How many rockets does Sharpe think the French have?

4. Who wants to marry Mary?

5. What would happen if all the rockets went off at once?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lawford tell Sharpe about rockets and what do they see as they watch them being used?

2. What does a mill fort do for Tippoo's troops and what does the British do about the mill fort?

3. How does Sharpe get information about the mine and what does he figure out about the mine?

4. What does Hakeswill do when it comes his turn to be killed?

5. What is Mary doing for work?

6. Of what do the British and Tippoo's forces consist?

7. What do the British first do with their cannons to begin to breach Tippoo's wall?

8. What does Tippoo hope as the British prepare to attack and what happens to that hope?

9. How does Sharpe get them out of the prison?

10. How does Sharpe take care of the black-powder mine?

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