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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprises Flashman about the Russian peasants?
(a) That they are slaves.
(b) That they are so smart.
(c) That they are so poor.
(d) That they are so dirty.

2. What does Flashman surmise is the only way that people like Scud East and Tom Brown will ever be happy?
(a) Flashman doesn't think they will ever be happy.
(b) If their morality is being tried and they can feel like they are doing the right thing.
(c) If they ever fell in love and got married.
(d) If they live a quiet, Christian life.

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

4. What does the Russian General, Lipandi, do when Flashman is first introduced to him?
(a) He asks Flashman what the British's plans are for the remainder of the war.
(b) He slaps Flashman across the face.
(c) He bows to Flashman.
(d) He checks Flashman's breath for alcohol.

5. What diseases are both the British and the Russian armies suffering from?
(a) Dysentary and Cholera.
(b) The Flu and Polio.
(c) The common cold and the Black Plague.
(d) Small Pox and Measles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do East and Flashman manage the 5 to 6 hour sled ride to Yenitchi without freezing to death?

2. Who says "Put no faith in women, and as much in Chinese"?

3. How is Lord Raglan finally "stung" into action?

4. Why is the peasant uprising opportune for East and Flashman?

5. Why is Flashman's wife mortified?

(see the answer key)

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