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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. How do the generals want to kill the remaining rebel chiefs?

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

3. Who captures Flashman in this section?

4. What kind of attack does Flashman realize they cannot survive a repeat of?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Rose plan to get Flashman inside Jhansi?

3. Why is Kavanaugh not the ideal man for the mission in chapter ten?

4. What is Flashman's new mission in chapter eleven?

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

6. What happens when Flashman and the others flee into a temple?

7. Why does Flashman think Jhansi is the best place for him to go?

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

9. How does Wheeler keep Flashman busy in chapter nine?

10. How does Flashman convince O'Toole that he is a British soldier?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the seventies? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

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

How accurate is Fraser's representation of 1850s Indian culture? In what way is Fraser representation of Indian culture restricted by the fact that he tells the story from Flashman's point of view?

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