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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. Why is Kutebar in the cell?

2. What noise does Kutebar make in the cell during the dead of night at Fort Raim?

3. After the rescue, where do the Tajiks take Flashman after riding for hours?

4. When the Russians surround Flashman, what does he say he is waiting for?

5. What is the danger that East heard?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how East and Flashman were treated in the house of Count Pencherjevsky.

2. How does Flashman try to get out of helping Yakub Beg and his people fight the Russians?

3. Explain why Flashman called Yakub Beg and his companion Panthans.

4. How does Flashman eventually get caught? What happens to Scud East?

5. What obstacles must East and Flashman overcome in order to make a successful escape?

6. Explain why Count Pencherjevsky doesn't like Valla's husband?

7. Describe the situation that Flashman walks into when he is put in the cell.

8. Describe what happened with the priest and the political agitator, Blank.

9. Describe how Flashman sees his arrival in India going in Chapter 10.

10. Explain how Flashman found out that the Silk One was actually a female.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you think that Flashman at the Charge is a social commentary about the time period it was written in? Could it also serve as a social commentary to the time it was published in (1973)?

Essay Topic 2

Do you think that George MacDonald Fraser uses stereotypes in Flashman at the Charge? Why or why not? Please support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Do you think Lord Raglan is being hypocritical in his admonition of Flashman regarding the death of Prince William? Describe why or why not, and support your answer.

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