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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. Who is the Silk One's constant companion?

2. What is Item 7?

3. How do the two other prisoners at Fort Raim talk to each other?

4. What is the name of the man that Flashman relieves when he arrives in the cell?

5. What does Flashman suppose in the first line of Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain how Flashman and East end up taking Valla with them on their escape.

3. Explain why Count Ignatieff decides to take Flashman with him to India.

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

5. Describe the dream the Flashman had the second night he was in the cell.

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

7. How does Flashman describe the landscape as they escape in Chapter 7?

8. Describe the incident when Flashman first sees how the Pencherjevsky family treats their serfs as sub-human.

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

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

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

Does Flashman have a moral compass? Why or why not? Support your answer from the text.

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