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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 fate awaits Flashman when he is captured after his escape attempt?
2. Who is Izzat Kutebar?
3. How does the Count feel about Scud East?
4. Why does Flashman lie to Valla?
5. When Flashman finally goes to his cell after witnessing the "demonstration", why does he feel relieved?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain how Flashman and East end up taking Valla with them on their escape.
2. Describe how East and Flashman were treated in the house of Count Pencherjevsky.
3. Explain why Count Pencherjevsky doesn't like Valla's husband?
4. How does the Silk One react to Flashman's reasoning for not wanting to help Yakub Beg and his people fight the Russians?
5. Describe the incident when Flashman first sees how the Pencherjevsky family treats their serfs as sub-human.
6. Describe how Flashman sees his arrival in India going in Chapter 10.
7. What obstacles must East and Flashman overcome in order to make a successful escape?
8. Explain why Flashman is momentarily wary of seeing Scud East at Pencherjevsky's estate.
9. Explain why, even though Flashman is a British gentleman and soldier, Count Ignatieff tells him that Flashman will receive no mercy.
10. How does Flashman describe the landscape as they escape in Chapter 7?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe how social standing and social climbing are at work in this book. How does it affect the characters?
Essay Topic 2
Harry Flashman is clearly the protagonist of the novel, but would you consider him a hero or an anti-hero? Support your answer with evidence from the text.
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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