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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 is Rossendale practicing everyday?

2. What news does Sharpe hear from Harper after Harper sees Jane?

3. Why does Sharpe remain in France?

4. What do d'Alembord and Harper worry about concerning Jane?

5. Who gives Ducos's address to Frederickson?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lucille write to Roland?

2. Describe the fight at Ducos' defensive room.

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

4. Where does Ducos remain and what does he do while there?

5. What does Calvet suggest to Sharpe and his group and why? What do they do after agreeing on a plan?

6. What does Frederickson do about Lucille and her opinion of Sharpe? What do he and Harper do while Sharpe is recovering and how does Sharpe feel about where he is? What does Lucille think of Sharpe?

7. What does d'Alembord urge Jane to do, what is her response and how does he feel about that response?

8. How do the maneuvers at Ducos' estate turn out as far as Ducos' men are concerned?

9. What ruins Sharpe and Frederickson's friendship and what does Sharpe do at the end of the book?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Jane has become seriously disenchanted with Sharpe the man while becoming seriously enchanted with his money. She falls in with a bad sort of people and lacks the intelligence to realize how brutally she is being used. Though the author Cornwell may or may not have such personal views on women, the way women are characterized in his series is often less than complimentary. Discuss one of the following:

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

2. Cornwell is trying to be historically accurate, so is his treatment of women in his book(s) justified?

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

Essay Topic 3

Jane again calls on Rossendale and it becomes apparent that they are romantically involved and somewhat intimate. Indeed, much of London admires Rossendale for his bravery in the matter as it is widely assumed that Sharpe will return and kill the man before discarding Jane.

1. Why do you think Rossendale would risk his life to be involved with Jane? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Rossendale is a titled individual, meaning he is a Lord in British society. Discuss whether you believe Rossendale would be involved with Jane if he was a commoner and why you have the opinion you have. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Jane has money and no title; Rossendale has a title and no money. Discuss the ways in which both of them are using the other. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

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