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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 ask his childhood friend?
2. What does Hocking say Sharpe can do while waiting?
3. What happened to Grace?
4. Why does Willsen know the name of the young Captain who speaks to him, though they haven't met?
5. What does Sharpe tell Hocking before Sharpe kills the man?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Sharpe do and think after fleeing Wapping Steps.
2. What is Wapping Steps and why does Sharpe go there?
3. How does Sharpe get to Copenhagen?
4. What is Captain Willsen doing at the opening of this chapter and why?
5. How is Sharpe tricked and what does he do?
6. How does Sharpe rescue Skovaard?
7. Who is Lavisser and how does he act in the carriage as they are riding to the docks?
8. What is the reason for the mission to Copenhagen?
9. Why is Richard Sharpe angry about his commission and how did he get a commission?
10. How does Sharpe escape confinement and what frightens him about his escape means?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
"Sharpe's Prey" 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
"Sharpe's Prey: Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807", is written around the historic invasion of Denmark by the British in 1807. Discuss the following:
1. Research the actual historical event of the invasion of Denmark by Britain in 1807, and write an informative essay on it.
2. Compare/contrast the actual historical event with how it is portrayed in "Sharpe's Prey: Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807". How are they alike? Different? Why do you think Cornwell alters some of the facts? Do you think the alterations improve the story? Why or why not?
3. Choose some minor historical event and write a short story set in that event. Try to stick to the actual facts as much as possible.
Essay Topic 3
Cornwell has tried as much as possible to use historical events and facts around which to weave his work of fiction. Discuss the following:
1. Do you think this book qualifies as an historical fiction? Why or why not?
2. If much of the events in the book are historical, what surprises you about the way the events play out?
3. Do you think the culture of that era is more or less advanced than you imagined? Explain.
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