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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. Who thought he was in love with Lucille?
2. What does Sharpe feed occasionally?
3. Where did the treasure go?
4. What does Malan do as Sharpe greets him?
5. What promise does Lucille make to Lorcet?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Picard hear as he thinks about his loss to Sharpe and what do he and Santon think it is?
2. How does Sharpe deal with the three men who are with him?
3. How does Sharpe send Gudin off?
4. How do Sharpe and Malan get into Lucille's house?
5. What does Sharpe think after he kills the fox and he does not see the six men continue to the village?
6. What does Challon do while Lucille puts Patrick to bed? What does Lorcet find in Sharpe's accounts?
7. What does Sharpe say to Lucille about the cogwheels, and what is her response?
8. What does Lucille do when Challon pushes on the bed, and what is Challon's response?
9. What does Sharpe tell Locet about the gold?
10. What does Hagman have to say about Maria and her baby?
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. Sharpe and Picard .
2. Harper and Sharpe.
3. Caillou and Gudin.
Essay Topic 2
Cornwell is masterful in his description of battles and life in general in for a soldier during the Napoleonic Wars in the early 1800s. Discuss one of the following:
1. Trace and analyze Cornwell's descriptive passages about life as a soldier. How does he use descriptions of the five senses to make the reader feel s/he is there? Do you find his descriptions compelling? Seemingly accurate? How would Sharpe's Christmas be different if Cornwell did not include such descriptive passages?
2. Analyze Cornwells's descriptive passages about the social structure of the times and discuss what you think it would be like to be Lucille who was wealthy before the war and now is reduced to living well below her previous level.
3. Describe and analyze Cornwell's descriptive passages about the topographical setting and the physical descriptions of the people. Does Cornwell do an adequate job of actually making the reader "see" the land/sea where the action is taking place? How about getting a visual image of the characters? How does the descriptions of the setting add to the novel? Do you like having an idea of how a character looks? How would the novel be different without such descriptions?
Essay Topic 3
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 Christmas.
2. Identify where the parts of the plot seem to fall in Sharpe's Christmas. Explain using examples.
3. Define the literary term "subplot." Write a sentence or two synopsis of a subplot in Sharpe's Christmas.
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?
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