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

2. Who takes a liking to Mary?
(a) Lakshmi.
(b) Gudin.
(c) Lawford.
(d) General Rao.

3. What does McCandless decide to teach Sharpe?
(a) To play chess.
(b) To play stones.
(c) To fence.
(d) To read and write.

4. How does the tiger die?
(a) It does not die; it escapes.
(b) Sharpe shoots it.
(c) Lawford decapitates it.
(d) Mary shoots it.

5. What does Sharpe receive from Tippoo?
(a) Gold gilt for his sword pommel.
(b) A silver sword hilt.
(c) A new rifle.
(d) A large, gold medallion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe observe at the west gate?

2. What is a mill fort?

3. What does Lawford say about the rockets on the city walls?

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

5. Why does Sharpe ignite the fuse of the mine?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tippoo entertain his troops and what does he plan to do with the British prisoners during the entertainment?

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

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

4. What does Sharpe discover about the dungeon and about Hakeswill in the dungeon?

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

6. How do the British officers feel about the outer wall, who will be sent in when the wall is breached and why are they given the name they are given?

7. What does Sharpe say to Lawford about the rockets?

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

9. What is the first task Gudin has Sharpe and Lawford do and how well do they do it? How does Lawford feel afterward?

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

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