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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Tippoo ordered to be placed between the inner and outer city walls?
(a) Thousands of infantry troops.
(b) Artillery.
(c) A massive black powder mine.
(d) Captured British cannons.

2. What is Sharpe contemplating at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) He's thinking about women.
(b) Death.
(c) How much money he can find.
(d) Desertion.

3. How many are in the British firing line they array against Tippoo's troops in Chapter 1?
(a) Seven hundred.
(b) Two thousand.
(c) A thousand.
(d) Four hundred.

4. Who is watching Sharpe and Mary talk?
(a) Sergeant Green.
(b) Lieutenant Lawford.
(c) Hakeswill.
(d) Captain Morris.

5. Who was Mary's dead husband?
(a) An officer in the Indian army.
(b) A rice farmer.
(c) A sergeant in the English army.
(d) A sergeant in the Indian army.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hakeswill do with the man who has money taped to his chest?

2. Why is Hakeswill thinking about Mary Bickerstaff?

3. What is Richard Sharpe's rank in Chapter 1?

4. Where does Sharpe find money on the officer he is searching?

5. To where is the British army moving?

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