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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. Whom does Challon push out of the room upstairs?
2. What does Sharpe use to repair the farmhouse?
3. Who reprimands Challon?
4. Who follows Lucille upstairs?
5. What did Ducos' will mention?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Sharpe tell the people in the church?
2. Where does Sharpe go on the morning of Christmas Eve?
3. What is Picard doing while Gudin and Sharpe talk?
4. What does Malan say to Sharpe's request? What is Sharpe's response?
5. How do Sharpe and Malan get into Lucille's house?
6. Who pushes their way into the house while Sharpe is gone, and what do they do and say?
7. Why does Malan agree to help Sharpe?
8. What does Lucille hope about Sharpe, and how does she feel about leaving her home?
9. What does Sharpe offer Gudin and what is Gudin's reply?
10. What does Locet tell Sharpe to do? How does Locet arrange for that to happen?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
At the conclusion of a story, most readers either consciously or unconsciously engage in processing the story and usually come to a conclusion as to whether they like the book or not. Discuss one of the following:
1. Would you consider Sharpe's Christmas a "good" story? Why or why not? Use examples to illustrate your stance.
2. What do you think are the elements of an outstanding story? Analyze one of your favorite stories to see if those elements are present.
3. What are some reasons you might consider a story a failure? Analyze a story you think is a failure and see if those elements are in that novel.
Essay Topic 2
Cornwell is masterful in his description of battles and life in general in for a soldier during the Napoleonic Wars in the early 1800s. Discuss one of the following:
1. Trace and analyze Cornwell's descriptive passages about life as a soldier. How does he use descriptions of the five senses to make the reader feel s/he is there? Do you find his descriptions compelling? Seemingly accurate? How would Sharpe's Christmas be different if Cornwell did not include such descriptive passages?
2. Analyze Cornwells's descriptive passages about the social structure of the times and discuss what you think it would be like to be Lucille who was wealthy before the war and now is reduced to living well below her previous level.
3. Describe and analyze Cornwell's descriptive passages about the topographical setting and the physical descriptions of the people. Does Cornwell do an adequate job of actually making the reader "see" the land/sea where the action is taking place? How about getting a visual image of the characters? How does the descriptions of the setting add to the novel? Do you like having an idea of how a character looks? How would the novel be different without such descriptions?
Essay Topic 3
A work of fiction is often organized around a structure called a plot. Discuss the following:
1. Define plot and its major parts (rising action, climax, falling action, resolution [or denouement]. Write a sentence or two synopsis of the major plot of the Sharpe's Christmas.
2. Identify where the parts of the plot seem to fall in Sharpe's Christmas. Explain using examples.
3. Define the literary term "subplot." Write a sentence or two synopsis of a subplot in Sharpe's Christmas.
4. Identify the major parts of the subplot you identified in task number 3.
5. Why do you think identifying the plot and elements of the plot is useful?
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