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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hakeswill do with the man who has money taped to his chest?
(a) Trade a bandage for the money.
(b) Promise to contact the man's family for the money.
(c) Knocks him out and takes the money.
(d) Kills him and takes the money.

2. To what unit is Sharpe assigned?
(a) Thirty-third Regiment.
(b) Fourth Battalion.
(c) Twenty-second Regiment.
(d) Fourteenth Regiment.

3. Where is Mary directed to go?
(a) To the kitchens to work.
(b) No one cares to direct her to anything.
(c) Back to the British.
(d) Work with Tippoo's officers in the house.

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

5. What is chained in the courtyard where McCandless is standing?
(a) Four elephants.
(b) Six large tigers.
(c) Two British officers.
(d) Ten Indian slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Richard Sharpe's rank in Chapter 1?

2. What do the deserters notice about where they are taken?

3. What does Lieutenant Lawford suggest?

4. How many times has Sharpe seen action?

5. Why does Gudin suggest showing mercy to British prisoners is a good idea?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is with McCandless when he arrives at the courtyard and what does he demand Sharpe do? How did Sharpe's actions turn out?

2. How does the battle end up between the British and Tippoo, and what does Gudin have to say about it?

3. What does Gudin determine about Sharpe and Lawford and what does he do about Sharpe's wounds?

4. How is Sharpe's punishment carried out and how does it stop?

5. What do Hector McCandless and Appah Rao do when they meet?

6. Why does Sharpe's case for the court-martial look hopeless?

7. When do Lawford and Sharpe depart, who joins them and why does Sharpe take charge of the mission?

8. Why do they decide Sharpe is a good choice for the mission?

9. How does Tippoo execute two men?

10. What does Sharpe do about his and Mary's conversation?

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