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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 country does Flashman tell stories about at Balmoral?

2. Who does Nicholson say the Government-General is too soft with?

3. Where does Flashman have to meet Ilderim after he has put on his disguise?

4. What do the Muslim and Hindus believe the British want to pollute?

5. What kind of perfume is the Queen wearing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Flashman think Ignatieff has come to Balmoral?

2. How does Flashman deal with the Pathan, Sher Khan in chapter three?

3. What does the first chapter say about Flashman's relationship with his first wife Elspeth?

4. What horrific sight does Flashman see on the way to the jail?

5. What does Flashman say he believes about religion?

6. Who is Ilderim Khan?

7. How does Carmichael-Smith punish those who refuse the bullets?

8. Why do the Thugs want to kill Flashman?

9. How does Flashman escape the Russians in chapter two?

10. What does Flashman note about religious people in chapter three?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine Flashman's character across the whole series.

1. How does the author develop Flashman's character across the whole series?

2. What new elements does the Great Game add to Flashman's character?

Essay Topic 2

What does Fraser say about inhumanity? Do you agree the Indians acted just as inhumanely as the British? In what way does the first-person narrator perspective cloud the British atrocities?

Essay Topic 3

Examine sex in the book.

1. How do the characters in the book view sex?

2. Do the characters need to be sex to cope in the world that the author portrays?

3. How did the public react to the book's sex when it was first published? How would the public react to a similar book today?

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