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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. How does Sharpe feel about Lucille's estate?

2. What almost happens to Harper when he goes by Jane's house?

3. What does Lucille wonder about Sharpe?

4. What do Sharpe and his group have to negotiate in order to escape?

5. Why do Sharpe, Frederickson, and Harper go to the Kingdom of Naples?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does d'Alembord do in London as far as Jane is concerned in Chapter 10? How does Jane appear to him?

3. What does Calvet do in Naples first?

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

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

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

7. Why does Harper travel to London, and what happens when he calls on Jane?

8. Why does Lucille write to Roland?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Most protagonists are a mixture of admirable traits and character flaws, and Richard Sharpe is no exception. Sharpe's legendary powers of military strategy are juxtaposed with his reputation as a womanizer and his hatred for his wife. Discuss the following:

1. Trace and analyze situations when Sharpe demonstrates his prodigious powers of military strategy. Give specific examples to illustrate your analysis.

2. Trace and analyze Sharpe's character flaws offering specific examples of these flaws in your discussion.

3. Discuss how you think Sharpe's admirable traits help him obtain a high rank in the military despite his background as a child. Have his flaws impacted his career at all? Do any of those under his command seem to notice these flaws? Who? How does the reader know this?

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

The novel presents one pimp actively recruiting women as whores amidst rampant poverty and imminent mass starvation. Thrown into this mix are many disabled French veterans and various displaced persons. The end of the war has not brought an end to the humanitarian crisis.

1. Compare the situation with the ravages of war in Bordeaux to a modern day refugee camp. How are they similar? How are they different?

2. In view of the aftermath of war, discuss the various groups of people in a country who are affected by war and its aftermath besides the members of the military.

3. Given the fact that war usually has no redeeming value and that all the people in a country are affected by war, not just the members of the military, discuss what you believe are the reasons the average person still responds when the government calls for war.

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