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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Tippoo ordered to be placed between the inner and outer city walls?
(a) Artillery.
(b) Captured British cannons.
(c) Thousands of infantry troops.
(d) A massive black powder mine.

2. Why is Sharpe fighting in India?
(a) To break resistance to British rule.
(b) The Indians have killed a British Duke.
(c) The British are trying to take Pakistan.
(d) The British have just invaded India.

3. What does Sergeant Green tell Sharpe?
(a) He will chose the smallest boys for the flogging.
(b) He will appear the case.
(c) He will ensure Mary is safe.
(d) He will do the flogging himself and go easy.

4. Why do the officers Sharpe will be a convincing deserter?
(a) He comes from the lower class.
(b) He has flogging wounds.
(c) He is Irish.
(d) He has a scar on his face.

5. Where are the deserters locked?
(a) In the mayor's house.
(b) In the guard house.
(c) They are not locked up since they are given parole.
(d) In the dungeon.

6. How many tigers are in the courtyard?
(a) 3.
(b) 0.
(c) 1.
(d) 6.

7. To what does Sharpe admit which adds to his credentials for the rescue job?
(a) Having been in a dungeon before.
(b) Having knowledge of assassination techniques.
(c) Knowing lock picking.
(d) Speaking the language.

8. What are in place to deflect cannonballs?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Metal awnings.
(c) Sandbags.
(d) Defensive structures.

9. Where does Sharpe find money on the officer he is searching?
(a) In his boot.
(b) In his pants' pocket.
(c) An inside pocket in his jacket.
(d) In his turban.

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

11. Why does Hakeswill challenge Sharpe while they are marching?
(a) For his musket being carried on the wrong shoulder.
(b) For marching out of step.
(c) For talking in the ranks.
(d) For having blood on his bayonet.

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

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

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

15. Who did the preliminary questioning of McCandless?
(a) Gudin.
(b) General Pachimpu.
(c) The Havildar.
(d) Appah Rao.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the officers think of Sharpe's ability to lie?

2. Why would Lawford be deserting?

3. Why does Hakeswill argue with Sharpe about Mary?

4. What does Gudin prefer for executions?

5. Why is a doctor called for?

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