Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Chapter 10: In Disguise. Chapter 11: A Useful Friend. Chapter 12: A Tiger In A Zenana. Chapter 13: Officers Of The Palace. Chapter 14: A Surprise. Chapter 15: Escape. Chapter 16: The Journey. Chapter 17: Back At Tripataly. Chapter 18: A Narrow Escape. Chapter 19: Found At Last. Chapter 20: The Escape. Chapter 21: Home. 



Preface. 

While some of our wars in India are open to the charge that they were undertaken on slight provocation, and were forced on by us in order that we might have an excuse for annexation, our struggle with Tippoo Saib was, on the other hand, marked by a long endurance of wrong, and a toleration of abominable cruelties perpetrated upon Englishmen and our native allies. Hyder Ali was a conqueror of the true Eastern type. He was ambitious in the extreme. He dreamed of becoming the Lord of the whole of Southern India. He was an able leader, and, though ruthless where it was his policy to strike terror, he was not cruel from choice. 

His son, Tippoo, on the contrary, revelled in acts of the most abominable cruelty. It would seem that he massacred for the very pleasure of massacring, and hundreds of British captives were killed by famine, poison, or torture, simply to gratify his lust for murder. Patience was shown towards this monster until patience became a fault, and our inaction was naturally ascribed by him to fear. Had firmness been shown by Lord Cornwallis, when Seringapatam was practically in his power, the second war would have been avoided and thousands of lives spared. The blunder was a costly one to us, for the work had to be done all over again, and the fault of Lord Cornwallis retrieved by the energy and firmness of the Marquis of Wellesley. 

1. Who was Hyder Ali?
2. What did he dream about?
3. Was he a capable leader?
4. Did he choose to be mean?
5. Who was his son?
6. Was he nice?
7. What did he do to hundreds of British?
8. Why?
9. What was the struggle with Tippoo Saib marked by?
10. Which Lord could have been firm and avoided a second war?
11. What was almost in Lord Conrwallis' power?
12. What was Hyder Ali ruthless about?
13. Why have some Indian wars been undertaken?
14. What was shown toward Tippoo until it became a fault?
15. What was costly?
16. What had to be done again?
17. And who had to retrieve the fault of Lord Cornwallis?
18. What was Hyder Ali's wife's name?
19. What is the heading for this passage of writing?

Numbered answers:
1. a conqueror
2. becoming the Lord of the whole of Southern India
3. Yes
4. No
5. Tippoo
6. No
7. captives were killed
8. to gratify his lust for murder
9. a long endurance of wrong
10. Lord Cornwallis
11. Seringapatam
12. his policy to strike terror
13. slight provocation
14. Patience
15. Yes
16. the work
17. the Marquis of Wellesley
18. unknown
19. Preface