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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 are the similarities between Jane and Sharpe's new lovers?

2. How do Sharpe and Calvet plan to escape?

3. How does Sharpe feel about Lucille's estate?

4. How do Lucille and Sharpe feel towards each other by the end of Chapter 11?

5. Why does Harper travel to London?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Sharpe and his group do at Ducos' estate while the French are firing on it?

2. What is the similarity between Jane's affair and Sharpe's affair?

3. How does Frederickson feel about Lucille, what does Sharpe suggest and what happens when he follows Sharpe's suggestion?

4. Where does Frederickson go to find Ducos and how does that work out?

5. Why did Lucille's gun wound Sharpe so badly and what is involved for him because of that?

6. Describe the fight at Ducos' defensive room.

7. What does Calvet decide to do about Ducos based on local authorities' response to his request?

8. How does Sharpe feel about his affair with Lucille in view of his marriage to Jane?

9. What is apparent when Jane sees Rossendale and how does their social circle feel about it?

10. How do Calvet and Sharpe plan to avoid the Cardinal's men?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Richard Sharpe is in some ways a larger-than-life hero. Despite incredible odds, he usually comes out on top, in Sharpe's Revenge and in the other novels 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 whom 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 2

Frederickson's gentle rebuff leads him to travel away from Lucille and engage in successful detective work in Paris. The rebuff also sets up the gradual development of the love triangle resulting, at the novel's end, in the break between Frederickson and Sharpe.

1. Why do you think Frederickson and Sharpe ended their friendship because of Lucille? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. What does it say about the character of Frederickson and Sharpe that they don't stay friends because of Lucille? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Do you think two people who like the same other person can remain friends if one of them is successful in his/her pursuit? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Lucille and Sharpe transition from mutual antipathy to mutual affection and then romantic love over the course of the summer months and his recuperation. Sharpe's admiration for Lucille's house and estate, coupled with Jane's banal taste in a London home, foreshadows Sharpe's eventual return to Lucille's estate.

1. Often some of the best relationships occur between two people who were indifferent or even hostile towards one another when they first met. Discuss how and why a situation like that can change into love and respect between two people.

2. Discuss what you think is meant by the mention of foreshadow in the above paragraph. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

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