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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 Kutebar say that a word of thanks between warriors should be?
2. Who is the Silk One's father?
3. What is Flashman relieved to hear about Count Pencherjevsky and Valla?
4. Once they arrive in Syr Daria, where is Flashman placed?
5. What is Flashman the most terrified of during his and East's escape?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does East feel when Flashman throw's Valla overboard? Describe his reaction.
2. How does Flashman describe the passage through the Arabian Nights?
3. Describe why Flashman feels comforted by the desert.
4. Explain why, even though Flashman is a British gentleman and soldier, Count Ignatieff tells him that Flashman will receive no mercy.
5. Explain how Flashman found out that the Silk One was actually a female.
6. Describe the dream the Flashman had the second night he was in the cell.
7. Describe how Flashman sees his arrival in India going in Chapter 10.
8. Explain why East left Flashman to the Russians.
9. How does the Silk One react to Flashman's reasoning for not wanting to help Yakub Beg and his people fight the Russians?
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
Do you think that Harry Flashman represents an archetype? Discuss why or why not, and use examples from the novel to back up your opinion.
Essay Topic 2
In Chapter 9, Flashman has a strange dream while still in the cell with Yakub Beg and Kutebar. What do you think the dream means? Support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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