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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Flashman portray Aunt Sara?
(a) As very quiet and slightly horse-faced.
(b) As very loud and boisterous.
(c) As beautiful, but a little old for his taste.
(d) As very shrewd.

2. What is the name of the man that Flashman relieves when he arrives in the cell?
(a) Yakub Beg
(b) Izzat Kutebar
(c) The Silk One
(d) Flashman can't understand his name.

3. Where do Flashman and Scud East know each other from?
(a) Rugby school.
(b) The 11th Hussars.
(c) The army.
(d) Scud was once a potential suitor for Elspeth.

4. Of the party that saves the three prisoners, who seems to have the authority?
(a) No one has authority; it's total chaos.
(b) Yakub Beg.
(c) A very slight boy.
(d) Kutebar.

5. What is the purpose of Aunt Sara introducing Flashman to the Russian steam bath?
(a) To seduce him and test his virility.
(b) To get him to relax.
(c) To get him to bathe himself.
(d) To warm him up from the bitter Russian cold.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Flashman lets Willy make the second command, what does Willy do?

2. What does Valla do the first time that Flashman makes a pass at her?

3. What is the tortured man's name?

4. What drives the serfs to finally revolt against Count Pencherjevsky?

5. Why does one of the other prisoners tell Flashman to "take heart"?

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