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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 do the British troops do at the end of this chapter?
(a) Eat a hearty meal.
(b) Write letters home.
(c) Sit and wait in formation.
(d) File into the network of trenches.

2. Who wants to marry Mary?
(a) Lawford.
(b) Kunwar Singh.
(c) Sharpe.
(d) No one.

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

4. Why does Sharpe ignite the fuse of the mine?
(a) He does not.
(b) So to burn off the fuse so the mine cannot be lit.
(c) So the British can find them after seeing the explosion.
(d) So it will explode before the British arrive.

5. What does Tippoo have his jettis do?
(a) Execute criminals.
(b) Execute traitors.
(c) Torture soldiers for information.
(d) Guard his family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lawford admire about Sharpe?

2. With whom does Sharpe share a cell?

3. What are Tippoo's primary defenses?

4. How long after Sharpe and Langford join the French do the British arrive?

5. Where does the British army establish camp?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens to Hakeswill as the British siege begins, who does he kill and why?

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

5. Where does Sharpe go after the ceremony, what does he find out and how does he feel about it?

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

7. How does Tippoo execute criminals and what does he do afterward?

8. What do Lawford, McCandless and Sharpe discuss in their cell?

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

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

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