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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 is Sharpe's assessment of the British situation?
(a) Bad.
(b) Uncertain.
(c) About usual for what they are trying to do.
(d) Great.

2. How many rockets does Sharpe think the French have?
(a) A few hundred.
(b) Thousands.
(c) Ten or fifteen.
(d) Just a few dozen.

3. What do the British troops do at the end of this chapter?
(a) Eat a hearty meal.
(b) Write letters home.
(c) Sit and wait in formation.
(d) File into the network of trenches.

4. What would happen if all the rockets went off at once?
(a) Much panic and confusion.
(b) There's is no way of predicting.
(c) There are so few, it would hardly be noticed.
(d) The cavalry would probably be ineffective.

5. What is nearly finished?
(a) The British emplacements.
(b) The cannon arrangements on the wall.
(c) Tippoo's black-power mine.
(d) The Muslim Ramadan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is near Sharpe's discovery in the dungeon?

3. Who does Hakeswell murder?

4. What does Sharpe observe at the west gate?

5. What does Mary teach the General's children?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Sharpe honored and what did he receive?

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

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

4. What does Mary do when Rao decides to rescue McCandless and what does Kunwar Singh do?

5. How does Tippoo entertain his troops and what does he plan to do with the British prisoners during the entertainment?

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

7. How does Sharpe take care of the black-powder mine?

8. How does Sharpe get them out of the prison?

9. What is Mary doing for work?

10. What do the British first do with their cannons to begin to breach Tippoo's wall?

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