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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mary learn from the General's wife?
(a) How to properly wear a sari.
(b) How to embroider.
(c) How to knit.
(d) How to bake pies.

3. Why are the Forlorn Hopes so named?
(a) No one knows.
(b) They are always so dour.
(c) They are always an optimistic group.
(d) Their rate of survival is low.

4. What does Gudin prefer for executions?
(a) Beheading by axe.
(b) Firing squad.
(c) Hanging.
(d) The guillotine.

5. What does Sharpe tell Lawford about the gunpowder in the musket he was to use to shoot McCandless?
(a) Nothing.
(b) It was wet.
(c) It wasn't really gunpowder.
(d) It was cut with too much sodium.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tippoo order his jettis to do?

2. What do McCandless and his Indian escort run into on his way back to the British army?

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

4. Who wants to marry Mary?

5. What is chained in the courtyard where McCandless is standing?

(see the answer key)

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