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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. Who does Rao rescue from the dungeon?
(a) McCandless.
(b) Mary.
(c) Hakeswill.
(d) Sharpe.

2. How does the tiger die?
(a) Mary shoots it.
(b) Lawford decapitates it.
(c) It does not die; it escapes.
(d) Sharpe shoots it.

3. What does Rao give Mary?
(a) Money.
(b) A letter stating she is innocent.
(c) A loaded pistol.
(d) A knife.

4. Who are the Forlorn Hopes?
(a) The gurkhas who are fighting with the British.
(b) The prisoners of Tippoo.
(c) The first wave of soldiers to enter a breach.
(d) The cavalry who will not be useful in this fight.

5. Whose name does Sharpe yell out?
(a) Pao.
(b) Lawford.
(c) Harris.
(d) Hakeswill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tippoo have his jettis do?

2. What had Sharpe been hoping to do after encountering Hakeswill?

3. What are Sharpe and Mary discussing when Gudin arrives?

4. What does Sharpe discuss with Lawford and McCandless?

5. What does Mary still have in her possession?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Mary doing for work?

2. What does Hakeswill do when it comes his turn to be killed?

3. What does Sharpe discover about the dungeon and about Hakeswill in the dungeon?

4. With whom does Sharpe fight and what plan of his does his fight prevent?

5. What does Tippoo decide to do with Lawford and Sharpe after questioning them?

6. What are Sharpe and Lawford doing when Gudin comes to arrest them?

7. What does Sharpe say to Lawford about the rockets?

8. Of what do the British and Tippoo's forces consist?

9. How does Sharpe get information about the mine and what does he figure out about the mine?

10. Where does Sharpe go after the ceremony, what does he find out and how does he feel about it?

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