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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) Put them in the dungeon.
(b) Forgive them.
(c) Hang them.
(d) Give them to his tigers.

2. 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.

3. Who is taken prisoner by Tippoo's forces?
(a) Hakeswill.
(b) Harris.
(c) No one.
(d) Littleton.

4. What does Sharpe observe at the west gate?
(a) Tippoo's men are dumping out food that is poisoned.
(b) The British are retreating.
(c) Tippoo's men are packing in black powder.
(d) The British are setting up siege machines.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe discover in the dungeon?

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

3. What does Hakeswill claim to have seen in the city?

4. What does Sharpe use to get rid of the men guarding the black-powder mine?

5. Who fights the jettis?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Gudin order Sharpe to do to sabotage the British and who does he encounter when he does?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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