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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. Whose name does Sharpe yell out?
(a) Pao.
(b) Hakeswill.
(c) Harris.
(d) Lawford.

2. When do the French test their rockets?
(a) When the British send in a large sortie.
(b) When the British are scouting the walls.
(c) When a parley team arrives.
(d) They do not test them since they have very few of them.

3. Why can't Gudin help Sharpe?
(a) He can help them if he wants.
(b) It would cross the bounds of what an advisor is to do.
(c) Sharpe is Tippoo's prisoner.
(d) Sharpe has admitted his role.

4. For what does Tippoo hope?
(a) An early monsoon rain.
(b) A parley with the British.
(c) A clear day for the attack.
(d) That Sharpe really is on his side.

5. What does Sharpe discuss with Lawford and McCandless?
(a) The British situation.
(b) The kegs of powder.
(c) The pile of rockets.
(d) The tiger.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Sharpe visit at Roa's house?

3. What does Tippoo do for the brave soldiers on his side?

4. What are the British officers discussing at the opening of chapter 8?

5. About how many troops does Tippoo have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do the rescuers find at the dungeon?

4. With whom does Sharpe fight and what plan of his does his fight prevent?

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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