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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. Why has Massena given Loup the orders he gave?

2. Why is Sharpe feeling bitter and defeated after the first battle at the village?

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

4. Where does Sharpe find Juanita de Elia in San Cristobal?

5. What does Loup tell Juanita to do when they reach Fuentes de Onoro?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do Sharpe and Hogan agree on after Sharpe shoots Sarsfield and what do they do?

3. Why is Wellington enraged with Erkins?

4. What type of superstitious action does Harper take?

5. What does Hogan say to Sarsfield?

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

7. How does Hogan set up confronting Father Sarsfield?

8. How does the second large battle for Fuentes de Onoro start and which British troops are involved?

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

10. What do the French do at the church in Nave de Haver?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A work of fiction is often organized around a structure called a plot. Discuss the following:

1. Define plot and its major parts (rising action, climax, falling action, resolution [or denouement]. Write a sentence or two synopsis of the major plot of the Sharpe's Battle.

2. Identify where the parts of the plot seem to fall in Sharpe's Battle. Explain using examples.

3. Define the literary term "subplot." Write a sentence or two synopsis of a subplot in Sharpe's Battle.

4. Identify the major parts of the subplot you identified in task number 3.

5. Why do you think identifying the plot and elements of the plot is useful?

Essay Topic 2

Most protagonists are a mixture of admirable traits and character flaws, and Richard Sharpe is no exception. Sharpe's legendary powers of military strategy is juxtaposed with his reputation as a womanzier. Discuss the following:

1. Trace and analyze situations when Sharpe demonstrates his prodigious powers of military strategy. Give specific examples to illustrate your analysis.

2. Trace and analyze Sharpe's character flaws offering specific examples of these flaws in your discussion.

3. Discuss how you think Sharpe's admirable traits helped him obtain a high rank in the military despite his background as a child. Have his flaws impacted his career at all? Do any of those under his command seem to notice these flaws? Who? How does the reader know this?

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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