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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe do when the young lieutenant is shot?

2. What does Tarrant tell Sharpe he has heard about?

3. Where do Sharpe and Loup meet to fight?

4. Why are the Spanish partisans in Nave de Haver?

5. What does Harper see lying in the dirt that he picks up?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Massena react to the southern troops joining the northern ones and what does Wellington do after the army is reunited?

2. Why is Sharpe being subjected to a board of inquiry?

3. What is Valverde's argument about Sharpe?

4. What does Sharpe do when he hears Loup shouting out commands in the battle and what do the soldiers around them do?

5. Where are the Spanish partisans set up to watch the southern flank and what happens to them?

6. What do Hogan and Wellington talk about as far as Almeida is concerned?

7. What is Wellington doing when he realizes he has made a mistake, and what is that mistake?

8. What does Hogan tell Wellington about the French and Almeida?

9. What does Hogan say to Sharpe about letting Juanita go free?

10. How does Sharpe kill Loup and how is Sharpe wounded?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of the following and compare and contrast the two people. Include in the discussion their type of leadership, their personality, their morals and whether you would like to serve under them.

1. Massena and Wellesley .

2. Harper and Sharpe.

3. Loup and Sharpe.

Essay Topic 2

Most of the French are gone when Sharpe and his men arrive at a small settlement, except for two men who are raping a young Spanish girl in one of the cottages. Sharpe and Harper enter the rest of the cottages and find a number of Spanish civilians have been slaughtered, some tortured and raped and many of them children. Sharpe gathers his men and prepares to execute the two Frenchmen who are left. Sharpe has the two prisoners put up against a wall and shot.

1. Discuss the differences between how a soldier who rapes and murders during war might behave in his own home. For example, do you think if a man who became a rapist and a murderer in war would have been a murderer and rapist had he never gone to war? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think what Sharpe did with the two French prisoners was right or wrong? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. It is obvious from Sharpe's encounter with Loup that Loup encouraged or at least allowed his men to rape, torture and murder. Why do you think Sharpe did not kill Loup when he killed the two prisoners? Loup was under a flag of truce, but Sharpe had already broken the rules of war by executing the prisoners. Discuss the difference Sharpe may have seen between executing two prisoners and honoring a flag of truce. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Sharpe's Battle.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Sharpe's Battle. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Sharpe's Battle. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

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