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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Flashman doing when East alerts him to danger during their escape?
(a) Buttoning up his pants.
(b) Daydreaming about Elspeth.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Keeping look-out.

2. How do East and Flashman manage the 5 to 6 hour sled ride to Yenitchi without freezing to death?
(a) They both lie closely to Valla.
(b) They take turns driving.
(c) They sit closely to each other for warmth.
(d) They drink copious amounts of brandy.

3. What is Flashman relieved to hear about Count Pencherjevsky and Valla?
(a) They they were injured, but going to be okay.
(b) That they had both died.
(c) That they are safe.
(d) That they didn't want Flashman to be tortured.

4. What is Flashman the most terrified of during his and East's escape?
(a) Being caught with his pants down by East.
(b) Being attacked by wolves.
(c) That Valla will freeze to death.
(d) Being found out by Russian soldiers.

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

6. Where does Flashman say he will finally feel safe?
(a) Only when he is back in Elspeth's arms.
(b) Only when he reaches London and his favorite ale house.
(c) Only when he is able to get the news of the Russian invasion to his commanders.
(d) Only when Count Ignatieff is dead.

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

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

9. Why does Scud invite Flashman outside to go for a walk to talk?
(a) Because the house is stuffy and warm.
(b) Because he is afraid of Flashman and didn't want to be alone with him.
(c) Because Scud feels like some exercise.
(d) Because there are "speaking tubes" in each of their rooms.

10. Why is Flashman annoyed at East for giving Valla something for sleep?
(a) Flashman was afraid he'd given her too much.
(b) Flashman wanted the opportunity to comfort the half-naked blonde.
(c) Flashman wanted Valla to be alert for danger.
(d) Flashman couldn't care less if East gave her something or not.

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

12. How do Flashman and East discover Item 7?
(a) Valla tells Flashman when they are in bed together.
(b) By eavesdropping on a secret military meeting.
(c) Count Pencherjevsky confides in Flashman.
(d) Valla tells East when they are in bed together.

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

14. What does Kutebar say that a word of thanks between warriors should be?
(a) Not said at all.
(b) Like a hoofbeat, loudly uttered.
(c) Like a heartbeat, hardly heard.
(d) Saying thank you is an insult.

15. What is the scene that Flashman encounters when he is placed in the cell with two men?
(a) Both men are pased out on the cell floor.
(b) One man hanging from all for limbs and another underneath him trying to hold him up.
(c) A terrible smell of the two men who haven't bathed.
(d) Flashman passes out when he reaches the cell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Count Ignatieff show Flashman for his own "benefit"?

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

3. What happens as Flashman and East are nearly free?

4. What does East do to Flashman when their escape fails?

5. Who of Flashman's captors is the most vile?

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