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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 does Sharpe notice as he is in the convent?
2. Who is the head of the army which subdues Andrados?
3. Why does Lord Farthingdale take command of the forces when he arrives?
4. What does the rocket battalion have that Sharpe needs?
5. What does Sharpe do with the prisoners from the convent?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do Pot-au-Feu and Hakeswill suggest to Sharpe and the others and what are they doing while they talk?
2. What does Sharpe first do when he takes over his new command and to what conclusions does he come?
3. What do Sharpe and Harper do at the convent while negotiating with the leaders of the men there?
4. How does Farthingdale act towards Sharpe when he returns without the woman?
5. What does Sharpe urge Farthingdale to do and what does he do? What do the defenders do?
6. What does Nairn decide about Andrados and what does Sharpe do?
7. What happens when Frederickson shows up at the convent?
8. What happens to the gold Sharpe brought with him and what kind of reassurance does Pot-au-Feu give? What do the men learn from that reassurance?
9. What happens to Sharpe and the three others in the convent shortly after they meet?
10. What does Farthingdale do with his troops as Christmas day breaks?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The evidence of murder, torture, and mass rape is throughout the convent. Sharpe watches a woman being tortured by being branded on her breasts with a red-hot iron. The Elsewhere women are systematically tortured in sexually stylistic ways.
1. Present and analyze the treatment of women in Sharpe's Enemy.
2. Cornwell is trying to be historically accurate, so is his treatment of women in his book(s) justified? Why or why not?
3. Is there any way Cornwell could have presented women in a more positive light and still stayed historically accurate? Explain.
Essay Topic 2
Sharpe demands a duel from Ducos but Ducos says no. In other books in this series, Sharpe has fought duels. Discuss the following:
1. What is a duel? How is it conducted? Why is it conducted? When did the use of duels to settle matters of honor go out of use in England? The United States?
2. What other methods do you think could be used to settle a matter of honor or insult to one's reputation?
3. In England, dueling becomes illegal in the 19th century, yet men still engaged in them and the winner often has to flee to escape punishment. Do you think dueling should have been made illegal? Why or why not?
4. Research dueling in Britain and discuss the typical reasons two men would engage in a duel. Do the reasons seem worth the potential costs?
5. If dueling were still legal, can you imagine engaging in one? Why or why not.
Essay Topic 3
Cornwell has tried as much as possible to use historical events and facts around which to weave his work of fiction. Discuss the following:
1. Do you think Sharpe's Enemy qualifies as an historical fiction? Why or why not?
2. If much of the events in Sharpe's Enemy are historical, what surprises you about the way the events play out?
3. Do you think the culture of that era is more or less advanced than you imagined? Explain.
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