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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 happens as Flashman and East are nearly free?
2. Where does Flashman say he will finally feel safe?
3. What drives the serfs to finally revolt against Count Pencherjevsky?
4. Of the party that saves the three prisoners, who seems to have the authority?
5. What does East do to Flashman when their escape fails?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the situation that Flashman walks into when he is put in the cell.
2. Explain why Count Ignatieff decides to take Flashman with him to India.
3. How does Flashman describe the landscape as they escape in Chapter 7?
4. Explain why Flashman is momentarily wary of seeing Scud East at Pencherjevsky's estate.
5. How does East feel when Flashman throw's Valla overboard? Describe his reaction.
6. Explain why Flashman might consider his predicament in Chapter 8 as "poetic justice".
7. Explain why Izzat Kutebar feels slightly ashamed of the way that he, Flashman and Yakub Beg were rescued from Fort Raim.
8. Describe the incident when Flashman first sees how the Pencherjevsky family treats their serfs as sub-human.
9. What are the events that occur during the peasant rebellion, which allow Flashman and East to escape?
10. Explain why Flashman called Yakub Beg and his companion Panthans.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Do you think that the Cold War, which was very much underway in the 1970s when George MacDonald Fraser wrote Flashman at the Charge, had an influence on how Fraser portrayed Russia in the novel? Why or why not? Support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Flashman compares British women and Russian women in Chapter 6. What differences and/or similarities does he note? Do these differences make his actions towards Russian women any different from his actions towards British women? Support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
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)?
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