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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does East do to Flashman when their escape fails?
(a) East runs away in fear.
(b) East decides to stay and fight with his commrade.
(c) East miraculously lifts the sled off Flashman and they escape.
(d) East abandon's him underneath the overturned sled.

4. What does the Silk One call Flashman?
(a) A very brave man.
(b) An infidel.
(c) A coward.
(d) A fool.

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

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

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

8. Why does Flashman believe Scud East abandoned him?
(a) Because he was freezing and wanted to find shelter.
(b) Because he was terrified and wanted to get away.
(c) Because he truly wanted to deliver the message to Lord Raglan.
(d) Because Flashman tossed Valla overboard the sled.

9. What is Item 7?
(a) A new carriage that Count Pencherjevsky wants to buy for Valla.
(b) A planned Russian invasion of Britain.
(c) A 30,000-man Russian invasion of Northern India.
(d) A planned Russian retreat in Crimea.

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

11. How do the two other prisoners at Fort Raim talk to each other?
(a) Like they are best friends.
(b) They don't talk to each other.
(c) They constantly insult eachother.
(d) In a very respectful way.

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

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

14. What noise does Kutebar make in the cell during the dead of night at Fort Raim?
(a) He is completely silent.
(b) A low whistle, which most people wouldn't even notice.
(c) He screams.
(d) He makes an animal cry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Flashman feel he would have been more qualified to deliver the message to Lord Raglan?

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

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

4. How does the Count feel about Scud East?

5. Where does Flashman say he will finally feel safe?

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