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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 Tippoo's primary defenses?

2. What does Tippoo do for the brave soldiers on his side?

3. What is nearly finished?

4. At whom is a volley of musket fire directed?

5. Why does Sharpe ignite the fuse of the mine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Mary doing for work?

2. How does Sharpe take care of the black-powder mine?

3. What does a mill fort do for Tippoo's troops and what does the British do about the mill fort?

4. Of what do the British and Tippoo's forces consist?

5. What does Sharpe say to Lawford about the rockets?

6. With whom does Sharpe fight and what plan of his does his fight prevent?

7. What does Lawford tell Sharpe about rockets and what do they see as they watch them being used?

8. What does Tippoo hope as the British prepare to attack and what happens to that hope?

9. How do the British officers feel about the outer wall, who will be sent in when the wall is breached and why are they given the name they are given?

10. What does Gudin order Sharpe to do to sabotage the British and who does he encounter when he does?

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 is juxtaposed with his reputation as a womanizer. 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 helped him obtain a higher 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

Many events that happen in "Sharpe's Tiger" are foreshadowed by previous events and/or signs. Discuss the following:

1. Define the literary term "foreshadow."

2. Why would an author use foreshadowing? Do you think it adds or detracts from your experience as a reader? Explain.

3. Trace and analyze three instances of foreshadowing in "Sharpe's Tiger". Match up what is mentioned earlier and what it foreshadows. Did you guess that each instance of foreshadowing was a "heads up" of something to come? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 3

Mary is the only woman in "Sharpe's Tiger" that has any role. She is an intelligent, resourceful and brave woman but, in the end, still needs the protection of a man.

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

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.

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