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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Sharpe and Lawford do to show they are deserters?
(a) Wear white scarfs.
(b) Change into civilian clothes.
(c) Dye their pants black.
(d) Turn their uniform jackets inside out.

2. What do the officers discuss back at the British encampment?
(a) Whether Lawford and Shapre were convincing as deserters.
(b) The changes that have occurred since the departure of Shapre and Lawford.
(c) If Lawford and Sharpe are still alive.
(d) If Mary will be able to translate the French documents.

3. To what is Sharpe sentenced at his court-martial?
(a) One year in jail and one year wages fine and a flogging.
(b) Two thousand stroke flogging.
(c) Five hundred stroke flogging.
(d) Confinement in prison, a flogging and dishonorable discharge.

4. What is Richard Sharpe's rank in Chapter 1?
(a) Captain.
(b) Corporal.
(c) Private.
(d) Sergeant.

5. What does Sharpe observe at the west gate?
(a) The British are setting up siege machines.
(b) Tippoo's men are packing in black powder.
(c) Tippoo's men are dumping out food that is poisoned.
(d) The British are retreating.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many troops does Tippoo have?

2. What does Sharpe tell Lawford about the gunpowder in the musket he was to use to shoot McCandless?

3. How did the enemy officer die that Sharpe is searching?

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

5. What does Rao give Mary?

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