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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 is the Prince of Orange excited?

2. What abates the Prince of York's excitement?

3. What is the horseman attempting to do?

4. Who arrives to drive off the French skirmishers?

5. How old is Napoleon's campaign in Belgium?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Rebecque and Sharpe decide Sharpe should do as they study a map of the area?

2. How does Sharpe mitigate a complete disaster with the battalions under French cavalry attack?

3. What does the Duke of Wellington read at the ball that interrupts his participation? What does he do after he reads the dispatch?

4. Why is the Duke of Wellington worried about his troops and what kinds of troops does he have?

5. What does Sharpe do when he and Doggett see a battalion of French while scouting the crossroad area?

6. What are some of the types of infantry attack used in the battle for Quatre Bras?

7. What is Bonaparte thinking about as he sits in his coach near where the French come into Belgium?

8. Why is the Duchess of Richmond apprehensive about John Rossendale?

9. Who is Sharpe's mother and in what wars has he fought? To whom is he attached now?

10. Why are the Dutch-Belgium troops unable to fight well?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

D'Alembord's premonition that he will be killed and his developing fear of tomorrow's events exemplifies the true nature of courage, which includes coming to terms with fear and overcoming it.

1. Discuss in detail whether courage is the absence of fear or doing a task in spite of it. Use examples to support your answer.

2. If a person runs from a battle due to fear, do you think that means he will always run from a battle? Why or why not? Use examples to support your answer.

3. If a person goes into combat with no fear and kills a significant number of the enemy and perhaps rescues other soldiers, is that person courageous? In other words, if a person acts like a hero/ine, yet truly has no fear, does that person still qualify as having courage? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze one major theme of Sharpe's Waterloo. Consider the following: How do one character's actions portray the theme you are analyzing? How does the setting contribute to that theme? Is the theme one that you would call a "universal" theme? If so, what other book or novel that you have read also includes this theme. If not, why don't you think it is a "universal" theme?

2. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Sharpe's Waterloo. How does one character's actions portray the themes you are analyzing? How does the setting contribute to those themes? Is each theme one that you would call a "universal theme"? If so, what other book or novel that you have read also includes this theme. If not, why don't you think it is a "universal" theme?

3. What benefit is there in discussing and analyzing the themes of a work of fiction? Do you think most authors consciously develop themes in their works? Why or why not? Can there be accidental themes? What do you think is one possible "accidental" theme in Sharpe's Waterloo? Which theme in Sharpe's Waterloo speaks to you the most in your life? Why?

Essay Topic 3

During the four days of battle, the Prince of Orange made several egregious errors that killed a lot of men; yet, after the first error he was not removed from command.

1. Discuss why he was allowed to remain in command. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. If the Prince of Orange had been a general in the U.S. military today, discuss what you think might be the various outcomes that could happen to him.

3. Do you think royalty should have been given so much power? Why or why not?

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