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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 Wellesley say about Sharpe?

2. What does Hakeswill attempt to do to Sharpe about his musket?

3. Why is Hakeswill thinking about Mary Bickerstaff?

4. What does Mary suggest Sharpe do?

5. Who halts Sharpe's flogging before it is finished?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the battle end up between the British and Tippoo, and what does Gudin have to say about it?

2. What does Sharpe do about his and Mary's conversation?

3. Why does Sharpe's case for the court-martial look hopeless?

4. What does Sergeant Hakeswill do while they are marching and how does his action affect Sharpe?

5. How is Sharpe's punishment carried out and how does it stop?

6. How does Hakeswill get Sharpe arrested for a court-martial?

7. Where do the lancers take Lawford and Sharpe and what do the two men see as they enter there?

8. Where do the deserters spend their first night, who interrogates them and what do they see in the courtyard the next morning?

9. What happens during McCandless' encounter and how does it end?

10. What is the outcome of Sharpe's court-martial and what does Sergeant Green do for Sharpe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In any book centered around the military, leadership of the troops is often crucial with the better leaders able to command the respect and loyalty of their men. The men's willingness to follow a particularly leader can have a decisive impact upon the success of a mission. Discuss the following:

1. Whose command style seems most effective? Analyze the elements of those effective leaders thoroughly and discuss the traits of the good leaders. What makes an excellent leader/commander? Give examples.

2. Whose command style seems least effective? Analyze the elements of those ineffective leaders thoroughly and discuss the traits of the poor leaders. What makes a poor leader/commander? Give examples.

3. Is disobeying a poor leader ever justifiable? Explain using details from the text, other books you have read and your personal experience. In times of war, disobeying an order can be punishable by death. Is this harsh sentence justifiable for such an act? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

In "Sharpe's Tiger" the British are fighting in India, a country which the British has conquered and made a part of the British Empire.

1. Discuss the moral issues surrounding one country conquering another. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Richard Sharpe is presented as the hero in "Sharpe's Tiger" and yet Tippoo Sultan is fighting for the right of his country to be independent of a conqueror. Discuss the behavior of Tippoo which shows him to be as much of a hero as Sharpe. Use examples from "Sharpe's Tiger" to support your answer.

3. With research compare British invasion and occupation of India with a similar incident that occurs in the 20th. century.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?

2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of "Sharpe's Tiger", identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement.) Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?

3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements (They may not contain every element of a major plot.) Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not. Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not.

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