View a FREE sample

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 French are fifty yards from the trench?

2. What does the person from question #170 say to Sharpe?

3. What do the French do after their first approach ends in disaster for them?

4. How does Hakeswill get free of the dungeon?

5. What is bandaged on Farthingdale when he comes outside?

Short Essay Questions

1. What unit shows up after the castle is taken and what does Sharpe do with them?

2. What happens when Dubreton comes up to Sharpe?

3. How many forces does Sharpe estimate are arrayed between the French and the British soldiers?

4. What do the French do the day after they take the convent? How does Sharpe view his situation?

5. What do the British leaders do on Christmas?

6. What do Sharpe and Harper do when the British attack is faltering?

7. What do the French ask for after the British rocket attack?

8. How does Sharpe deploy the rocket artillery and what is the result of the use of them?

9. Where do the French concentrate their artillery fire and why? What is the British response?

10. Why doesn't the French take the castle?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sharpe's Enemy is one book in a series of novels involving Richard Sharpe. Discuss the following.

1. What are two advantages of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Illustrate your statements with details from the text.

2. What is a disadvantage of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Illustrate your statements with details from the text.

3. Do you prefer to read a standalone book, or a series of books with the same main characters? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 2

Richard Sharpe is in some ways a larger-than-life hero. Despite incredible odds, he usually comes out on top, in Sharpe's Enemy and in the others in the series. Discuss the following:

1. Does having a larger-than-life hero make that person less of a hero? In other words, which is more admirable--a hero who ultimately always "lands on his feet," or one who strives against impossible odds and doesn't always succeed?

2. Does a character have to be successful in order to be a hero? Explain your answer.

3. Choose one other character besides Sharpe who you might call a hero/heroine and explain why you choose that person. Illustrate your statements with examples from the text.

4. Does every work of fiction have to have a hero? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 3

The evidence of murder, torture, and mass rape is throughout the convent. Sharpe watches a woman being tortured by being branded on her breasts with a red-hot iron. The Elsewhere women are systematically tortured in sexually stylistic ways.

1. Present and analyze the treatment of women in Sharpe's Enemy.

2. Cornwell is trying to be historically accurate, so is his treatment of women in his book(s) justified? Why or why not?

3. Is there any way Cornwell could have presented women in a more positive light and still stayed historically accurate? Explain.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 920 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample