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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. Why does Rao give this to Mary?
(a) For suicide if needed.
(b) So she can return to England.
(c) Because he believes she is innocent.
(d) For protection.

2. What does Gudin order Sharpe and Lawford to do?
(a) Go down and interrogate McCandless.
(b) Shoot two British officers.
(c) Go out and parley with the British.
(d) Stay off the walls.

3. What is Hakeswell's scheme?
(a) They do not know his scheme.
(b) To discredit Sharpe as a traitor and see him hung.
(c) To sell Mary into prostitution.
(d) To sell Sharpe to the Muslim slave traders.

4. What message did Sharpe want to give the British?
(a) To attack while the sun was low in the west.
(b) To attack before noon the next day.
(c) To attack right after the sun rises in the east.
(d) Not to attack the West wall.

5. Who wants to marry Mary?
(a) Kunwar Singh.
(b) No one.
(c) Sharpe.
(d) Lawford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the British officers discussing at the opening of chapter 8?

2. When do the French test their rockets?

3. What do Rao's men find at the dungeon?

4. Who do three jettis confront?

5. Where will all the British cannons be concentrated once the enemy's cannons are taken out where the British plan to enter the city?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Tippoo execute criminals and what does he do afterward?

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

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

5. What do the rescuers find at the dungeon?

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

7. How do the British officers feel about the outer wall, who will be sent in when the wall is breached and why are they given the name they are given?

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

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

10. What is Mary doing for work?

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