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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe talk about with another soldier in Chapter 1?
(a) Returning to England.
(b) Sergeant Hakeswill.
(c) The hot climate.
(d) The number of dead soldiers.

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

3. Why is Hakeswill thinking about Mary Bickerstaff?
(a) He wants Sharpe to marry her.
(b) He is interested in her.
(c) She bandaged a wound of his.
(d) She has offered him money to take her home.

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

5. What does Hakeswill attempt to do to Sharpe about his musket?
(a) Get him killed when it fires inaccurately.
(b) Make him lose it when the strap breaks.
(c) Make Sharpe look foolish.
(d) Entrap him into a flogging offense.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many are in the British firing line they array against Tippoo's troops in Chapter 1?

2. What does Tippoo use to execute two men?

3. What does Hakeswill goad Sharpe into doing?

4. What does Hakeswill do to Sharpe's musket?

5. Why do the officers Sharpe will be a convincing deserter?

(see the answer key)

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