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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 nationality is Mary?
2. What does Sharpe talk about with another soldier in Chapter 1?
3. What do the deserters notice about where they are taken?
4. Why is Hakeswill thinking about Mary Bickerstaff?
5. What is chained in the courtyard where McCandless is standing?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where do the deserters spend their first night, who interrogates them and what do they see in the courtyard the next morning?
2. What are the officers discussing at the beginning of Chapter 4 and what is Lawford's suggestion?
3. How does the battle end up between the British and Tippoo, and what does Gudin have to say about it?
4. How does Tippoo execute two men?
5. What does Gudin determine about Sharpe and Lawford and what does he do about Sharpe's wounds?
6. What is Sharpe doing with a dead enemy officer and how does his search end up?
7. What does the British do to advance on Tippoo and why are Tippoo's tactics poor?
8. What nationality is Mary and what do she and Sharpe talk about when he joins her after the battle? To whom was Mary married when she became a widow?
9. To what duties are Sharpe, Lawford and Mary assigned?
10. How is Sharpe's punishment carried out and how does it stop?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
"Sharpe's Tiger" is one book in a series of novels involving Richard Sharpe. Discuss the following.
1. What are two advantages of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Illustrate your statements with details from the text.
2. What is a disadvantage of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Illustrate your statements with details from the text.
3. Do you prefer to read a standalone book, or a series of books with the same main characters? Explain your reasoning.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Discuss one of the following:
1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in "Sharpe's Tiger".
2. Trace and analyze one major theme of "Sharpe's Tiger". How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of "Sharpe's Tiger". How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
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