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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what unit is Sharpe assigned?
(a) Twenty-second Regiment.
(b) Fourteenth Regiment.
(c) Thirty-third Regiment.
(d) Fourth Battalion.

2. What does Mary suggest Sharpe do?
(a) Take her into his tent to live.
(b) Formally request to marry her.
(c) Desert the army and run away with her.
(d) Get her pregnant so the army will let him marry her.

3. Why does McCandless shoot his horse?
(a) It was fatally wounded.
(b) The horse stepped in a hole and broke its leg.
(c) To use as a shield.
(d) So Tippoo couldn't add it to his cavalry.

4. Where does McCandless wait for Appah Rao?
(a) At a river ford.
(b) By an old rajah estate.
(c) In a tavern.
(d) At an ancient temple.

5. Where is McCandless taken?
(a) Seringapatam.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) To a dungeon in New Delli.
(d) To the Rjah Particupam's palace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who halts Sharpe's flogging before it is finished?

2. To what is Sharpe sentenced at his court-martial?

3. What does Sharpe talk about with another soldier in Chapter 1?

4. Who carries out Sharpe's flogging?

5. Who did the preliminary questioning of McCandless?

(see the answer key)

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