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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 has Dalton donated for dinner?

2. What has Lieutenant Bursay's face been scarred by?

3. What German city does Pohlmann say he lives in?

4. What does Cromwell tell Sharpe he should hide from the French?

5. How does Chase say Panjit and Nana took their defeat?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sharpe help out Lord and Lady Hale in this section?

2. What is Sharpe's opinion of India?

3. What is life like for Sharpe on the ship?

4. What does Lady Grace tell Sharpe when she sneaks away from Lord William?

5. What is Sharpe's opinion of Lord William Hale?

6. What is Sharpe talking to Nana Rao about at the beginning of this section?

7. Why is Lady Grace so furious with Lord William in this section?

8. What do the other people aboard the ship think of Sharpe's affair with Lady Grace?

9. How does Sharpe kill Barsey?

10. How does Sharpe help prepare for battle with the Revenant?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine violence in the book.

1. How do the characters in the book view violence?

2. Do the characters need to be violent to cope in the world that the author portrays?

3. How did the public react to the book's violence when it was first published? How would the public react to a similar book today?

Essay Topic 2

Compare Sharpe's character to the person he was at the beginning of the book to his character at the end.

1. What did Sharpe hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events change Sharpe's ideas about life?

3. How has Sharpe's character changed by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the author's writing style. How would you describe the author's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? What meaning does the author's style give to the story?

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