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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 is the situation in Bordeaux when the three friends arrive there?

2. Where does Ducos go in Chapter 9?

3. Why does Lucille draw a pistol on Sharpe and Frederickson?

4. Why doesn't Jane want Sharpe to fight the duel at the beginning of the book?

5. What does Jane believe would happen if Sharpe accepts his accolades?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Soult do with Toulouse following the British assault?

2. Who has set up the charges against Sharpe and Frederickson and what do the British authorities know?

3. What does Henri do with his sister, Lucille?

4. What orders do Sharpe, Frederickson, and Harper receive?

5. What do Sharpe and Frederickson decide to do and how does Harper help?

6. What does Jane demand of Sharpe in the Prologue?

7. What does Peter d'Alembord do with Shape and his companions?

8. How does Sharpe respond to Jane's demands in the Prologue?

9. What do the three friends discuss in Chapter 1 and for what does Fredrickson ridicule Sharpe and the other friend?

10. Of what does Part I in this novel consist and what does Part I serve to do in the novel's narrative arc?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Most protagonists are a mixture of admirable traits and character flaws, and Richard Sharpe is no exception. Sharpe's legendary powers of military strategy are juxtaposed with his reputation as a womanizer and his hatred for his wife. Discuss the following:

1. Trace and analyze situations when Sharpe demonstrates his prodigious powers of military strategy. Give specific examples to illustrate your analysis.

2. Trace and analyze Sharpe's character flaws offering specific examples of these flaws in your discussion.

3. Discuss how you think Sharpe's admirable traits help him obtain a high rank in the military despite his background as a child. Have his flaws impacted his career at all? Do any of those under his command seem to notice these flaws? Who? How does the reader know this?

Essay Topic 2

Frederickson develops unrequitec feelings for Lucille and continues to rehabilitate her estate. On Sharpe's suggestion, Frederickson finally proposes marriage and is gently but firmly rebuffed. He thereafter departs to pursue Ducos on his own.

1. In psychology, there is a cliche called the "geographic cure" which means that for some people the best way to get over a bad love affair or some other negative circumstances is to move. Discuss how this relates to Frederickson leaving Lucille's house. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Do you think it is better to face a problem head on or to just go away without solving a problem? Why or why not?

3. Write about an incident in your life or in the life of someone you know where the "geographic cure" was used.

Essay Topic 3

Jane has become seriously disenchanted with Sharpe the man while becoming seriously enchanted with his money. She falls in with a bad sort of people and lacks the intelligence to realize how brutally she is being used. Though the author Cornwell may or may not have such personal views on women, the way women are characterized in his series is often less than complimentary. Discuss one of the following:

1. Present and analyze the treatment of women in Sharpe's Revenge.

2. Cornwell is trying to be historically accurate, so is his treatment of women in his book(s) justified?

3. Is there any way Cornwell could have presented women in a more positive light and still stayed historically accurate? Explain.

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