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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. Why did Peculiar Cromwell resign from the naval?

2. What does Chase say Sharpe is rather than just an ensign?

3. What has Dalton donated for dinner?

4. Why does Sharpe think Britain should pay for his voyage back to India?

5. What does Braithwaite tell Sharpe he can purchase from him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Chase say he doesn't like women aboard his ship?

2. What excuse do the French offer for Bursay's actions?

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

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

5. How does the author describe Bursay?

6. Why is the food on the ship turned so bad?

7. Why does Sharpe decide to hand his diamonds to Cromwell for safekeeping?

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

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

10. How did Sharpe pay for his voyage back to England?

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

What will happen to the characters in the future? What happens in the book that suggests the characters lives will map out like this?

Essay Topic 3

The author wrote "Sharpe's Trafalgar" in the third person. Why do you think the author chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would change if the author wrote it in the first person?

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