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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 Count Ignatieff show Flashman for his own "benefit"?

2. What is Item 7?

3. Who is Izzat Kutebar?

4. Where does Flashman say he will finally feel safe?

5. How long is Flashman guaranteed life for while in captivity with the Russians?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does East feel when Flashman throw's Valla overboard? Describe his reaction.

3. Explain why, even though Flashman is a British gentleman and soldier, Count Ignatieff tells him that Flashman will receive no mercy.

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

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

6. What are the events that occur during the peasant rebellion, which allow Flashman and East to escape?

7. Explain why Izzat Kutebar feels slightly ashamed of the way that he, Flashman and Yakub Beg were rescued from Fort Raim.

8. Describe why Flashman feels comforted by the desert.

9. Why does Scud East avoid family dinners with Count Pencherjevsky and his family?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

History is often written in the eye of the beholder. The battles shown here in Flashman at the Charge are real historical events, even though Flashman himself was not a real person. Pick one of the major battles in the novel, research its real-life equivalent, and compare and contrast Flashman's account to the account written by true historians.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

In the beginning of the novel, the gender roles are quite clear--women are the weaker sex, and are silly and ignorant; men are strong and brave. Once Flashman encounters a description of the "Silk One", it seems to challenge the gender roles set down early in the novel. Please compare and contrast the gender roles in the beginning of the novel to the end of the novel. Do you think Flashman has changed his view on women? What view do you George MacDonald Fraser takes of women and their role in society?

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