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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Kutebar and Flashman take turns doing?
(a) Verbally abusing Yakub Beg.
(b) Trying to bribe the guard to let them out.
(c) Holding up Yakub Beg to ease his pain.
(d) Singing songs about their native lands.

2. When the Russian Soldiers come upon Flashman in the snow, what do they do?
(a) They leave him to be eaten by the wolves.
(b) They kill him.
(c) They send him back to Pencherjevsky's estate.
(d) They knock him unconscious.

3. How does Flashman meet Captain Count Nicholas Pavlovitch Ignatieff?
(a) He meets the Captain when the Captain beats a local registrar who insulted Flashman.
(b) They meet on the front line of the battle.
(c) They meet while drinking at the local pub.
(d) They meet because that's who Flashman will be staying with in Russia.

4. What drives the serfs to finally revolt against Count Pencherjevsky?
(a) When his Cossacks kill a priest.
(b) When his Cossacks kill the political agitator, Blank.
(c) When he sleeps with one of the serf women.
(d) When he knocks out one too many.

5. Why does Flashman pull strings to join the Board of Ordnance?
(a) Because he gets along very well with its commander, Lord Cardigan.
(b) Because he wants to impress his wife.
(c) Because he believes it is the safest, and he knows he cannot avoid service.
(d) Because he is in a hurry to prove himself as a hero.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Flashman blame for him learning about Item 7?

2. Where is Flashman caught geographically after his escape from Starovosk?

3. How close is the Russian charge before Campbell finally allows his troops to fire?

4. What country does Britain go to war with?

5. Why does Flashman say that Lord Raglan is the worst kind of General imaginable?

(see the answer key)

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