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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. Which Chief does Campbell want brought in alive?

2. Whose sins does Flashman state are always seen as worse?

3. What does Sher Khan threaten to use to kill Flashman?

4. What does Flashman say will happen to them if they are not relieved in three days?

5. What does Iderim say has ruined Flashman's perspective?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Flashman escape the crocodiles?

2. Why does Rose reject the idea of using a platoon to capture Lakshmibai?

3. How does Flashman escape the attack in chapter nine?

4. How does General Neill clean the floors in the Bibigarh?

5. Why does Flashman not like what the liberal writer later said about Gen. Neill's actions in the Bibigraph?

6. How is Flashman badly bruised in chapter seven?

7. What does Flashman think about Lakshmibai in chapter eleven?

8. How does Flashman react to East when he comes to apologize?

9. How does Flashman react to Ilderim's death?

10. How does Flashman react to East's death in chapter nine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Look at the structure of the book.

1. How does the author use character and dialogue to drive the narrative?

2. Discuss elements of the narrative structure; Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the following historical figures in Fraser's book and discuss how Fraser represents them in the Great Game and why he represents that person in that manner? Are there people who would argue against Flashman's representation of that person's life?

1. Florence Nightingale.

2. Prince Albert.

3. Lord Palmerston.

4. Rani Lakshmi Bai.

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