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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. Who loses all the ground he has captured?

2. Who arrives at Quatre Bras with the British Light Cavalry?

3. What happens to the Dutch-Belgian guns and infantry?

4. Who arrives to drive off the French skirmishers?

5. Where does Sharpe go to report after engaging the French forces in a feint?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do the French feel about the outcome of the war and why haven't the Prussians come to help the British?

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

5. Why are the French able to cross into Belgium and what type of resistance is there?

6. What becomes a major source of friction between the Prince of Orange and Sharpe? Why is Sharpe with the Prince?

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

8. What is one of the first blunders committed by the Prince of Orange?

9. What do Sharpe and Harper do on the second night of battle?

10. What type of technical details are seen in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sharpe, despite his background, is an officer and a gentleman and is, therefore, accorded more respect and trust, even in enemy territory, than the common soldier. Discuss the following:

1. Does it seem likely that officers are usually more respectable than enlisted men back then? What about today? Why or why not.

2. Sharpe refuses his wife a divorce and yet maintains a mistress. Do you think this is how an officer and gentleman comports himself? Why or why not.

3. In the present military in the United States, both officers and enlisted can be held for court martial for adultery or having sexual relations with someone of inferior rank. Why do you think this is so? Do you agree with the policy?

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

In Chapter 11, the macabre auction of the personal possessions of the dead officers is another example of the brutally simple disposition of the fallen soldiers' belongings and also their corpses. Only the most privileged soldiers and officers will have the benefit of loved ones and servants to seek them out from the vast field of dead and dying when the battle is over.

1. Do you think the treatment of dead soldiers and their possessions in this era meant that people had little value to society as a whole back then? Why or why not?

2. In terms of manpower does it seem to be short-sighted of the ruling class to pay so little attention to the wounded on the battle field? In other words, how many men may have died who could have survived to continue serving in the military? Why or why not would you consider the ruling class short-sighted in regards to wounded men?

3. Compare and discuss the difference in the way wounded are treated in war today as compared to that era.

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