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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who would Sharpe ask permission to marry Mary if he wanted to do that?
(a) Captain Morris.
(b) Sergeant Hakeswill.
(c) Lieutenant Lawford.
(d) Colonel Wellesley.

4. What does Lieutenant Lawford suggest?
(a) Having Ravi Shekhar do the job.
(b) Sending Hakeswill.
(c) Posing as a deserter to get into the city.
(d) Sending Sharpe and Mary.

5. Why is the Frenchman Gudin with Tippoo?
(a) He believes in India independence.
(b) He is Tippoo's brother-in-law.
(c) He has been taken captive.
(d) He is an advisor from the French.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wants to marry Mary?

2. Why does Hakeswill argue with Sharpe about Mary?

3. Why does Hakeswill challenge Sharpe while they are marching?

4. What does Rao give Mary?

5. Why is Sharpe fighting in India?

(see the answer key)

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