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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Count Ignatieff eventually taking Flashman?
(a) To England.
(b) To India.
(c) To Crimea.
(d) Back to Starotosk.

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

3. When Ignatieff asks Flashman about Item 7, what does he say?
(a) He cries and tell Ignatieff everything he knows.
(b) He refuses to tell Ignatieff anything.
(c) He passes out from fear.
(d) He lies to Ignatieff and sends him on a false trail.

4. Why does Flashman lie to Valla?
(a) Becuase he likes to lie.
(b) Because he doesn't want her to get hysterical.
(c) Because he doesn't want her to worry about her father.
(d) Because he thinks it will be funny.

5. Why does Flashman feel he would have been more qualified to deliver the message to Lord Raglan?
(a) Because he was a higher ranking officer in the military.
(b) Because he would have delivered it out of pure cowardice and self-love.
(c) Because he was more fit to travel.
(d) Because Flashman could speak better Russian than East.

6. How does the Count think of Flashman?
(a) He thinks of Flashman as a son.
(b) He thinks Flashman is brave, but stupid.
(c) He doesn't care much for Flashman.
(d) He does't care one way or another.

7. In order to make the sled go faster, what do East and Flashman have to do?
(a) Make the horses run faster.
(b) Push the sled.
(c) Make the sled lighter.
(d) Make the sled run straighter.

8. Who is the Silk One's father?
(a) They don't know.
(b) Ko Dali.
(c) Yakub Beg.
(d) Kutebar.

9. 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.

10. What does Count Pencherjevsky believe is the main reason for serf uprisings?
(a) Their lack of shelter from the cold.
(b) Sleeping with serf women or selling them as concubines.
(c) Their lack of good vodka.
(d) Their lack of good food.

11. Flashman goes snooping through East's writings and discovers a long letter to whom?
(a) Valla.
(b) Lord Cardigan.
(c) Lord Raglan.
(d) Tom Brown.

12. Where is Flashman eager to get to after he's been rescued?
(a) Back Starovosk and Valla.
(b) Afghanistan, and then to India.
(c) Back to Fort Raim.
(d) Back to England.

13. Once they arrive in Syr Daria, where is Flashman placed?
(a) In a jail at Fort Raim with two other prisoners.
(b) Flashman is chained to two Cossacks at all times.
(c) Flashman is handcuffed to Ignatieff at all times.
(d) Flashman has a specially guarded tent.

14. Why is Flashman sure that Afghanistan will side with the Russians?
(a) Because the Russians were treating the Afghans better than the British.
(b) Because Afghanistan and Russia formed a secret alliance.
(c) Because the Britishwere in a war with Afghanistan some 15 year prior.
(d) He didn't know, but he was hoping the Afghans would side with the British.

15. What language do the two other prisoners speak, and how does Flashman know?
(a) They speak English.
(b) They speak French, which Flashman understands perfectly.
(c) They speak Persian, which Flashman understands perfectly.
(d) They speak Russian, which Flashman understands perfectly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does East give Valla to make sure she sleeps for the majority of the ride?

2. Who is the Silk One's constant companion?

3. Of the party that saves the three prisoners, who seems to have the authority?

4. What is Flashman the most terrified of during his and East's escape?

5. What is the scene that Flashman encounters when he is placed in the cell with two men?

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