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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 language does Flashman use to communicate with the Russians?

2. At the end of Chapter 2, what does Flashman vow to do?

3. When Flashman goes to charge down the slope, what does he tell Willy to do?

4. Who does Raglan send after the fastest galloper to deliver Lucan a second message?

5. How does Flashman describe the Russian soldiers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Russian countryside, as seen through Flashman's eyes.

2. How does Flashman catch Elspeth with Lord Cardigan? Describe the events.

3. Explain how Flashy helped the young naive "greenhorn" in the pool hall beat Cutts in a game of pool. Why did he help the greenhorn?

4. Explain the outcome of the Charge of the Light Brigade.

5. How does Flashman react when Willy states that he wants a whore?

6. How does Flashman describe Willy?

7. Explain how Flashman got dysentery.

8. Explain why Raglan's orders to Lucan are contradictory.

9. What reason is given for Lord Cardigan kicking Flashy out of the 11th Hussars 14 years earlier?

10. Describe Elspeth's reaction when she finds out that Flashy has signed up with the Board of Ordnance instead of his old regiment the Hussars.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you consider Count Pencherverjevsky's slaves rising up against him as ironic? Why or why not? Please support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 9, Flashman has a strange dream while still in the cell with Yakub Beg and Kutebar. What do you think the dream means? Support your answer.

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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