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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. Where does Sharpe go after hearing someone respond to his yelling?
(a) Back to the city.
(b) Into the woods.
(c) Up river.
(d) Towards the command tents of the British.

2. What does Rao give Mary?
(a) A knife.
(b) A loaded pistol.
(c) A letter stating she is innocent.
(d) Money.

3. What is Gudin reluctant to do?
(a) Kill Lawford.
(b) Arrest Sharpe.
(c) Kill Mary.
(d) Arrest Mary.

4. Who do Sharpe and Lawford join?
(a) McCandless and Hakeswill.
(b) Just McCandless.
(c) No one.
(d) Just Hakeswill.

5. What does Mary still have in her possession?
(a) A bag of gold.
(b) A pardon for Sharpe from General Harris.
(c) The loaded pistol Rao gave her.
(d) A written order from General Harris to Lawford.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is near Sharpe's discovery in the dungeon?

2. What does Mary teach the General's children?

3. What are the British doing in the woods?

4. Where does Sharpe take Lawford?

5. Who is taken prisoner by Tippoo's forces?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the rescuers find at the dungeon?

2. What does Tippoo decide to do with Lawford and Sharpe after questioning them?

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

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

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

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

7. What does Mary do when Rao decides to rescue McCandless and what does Kunwar Singh do?

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

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 are Sharpe and Lawford doing when Gudin comes to arrest them?

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