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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the Count feel about Scud East?
(a) He thinks East is soft and doesn't like him much.
(b) He doesn't really care one way or another.
(c) He thinks of East as a son.
(d) He wishes East were his son-in-law.

3. What does Flashman lie to Valla about?
(a) Flashman tells Valla that her father is safe.
(b) Flashman tells Valla that he is taking her to England.
(c) Flashman tells Valla that he will be leaving her with Count Ignatieff.
(d) Flashman tells Valla that he is single.

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

5. Who is Izzat Kutebar?
(a) He is a bandit.
(b) He is a tradesman.
(c) He is a prince.
(d) He is a governor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Item 7?

2. What do Kutebar and Flashman take turns doing?

3. What fate awaits Flashman when he is captured after his escape attempt?

4. Why does Count Ignatieff warn Flashman not to expect any mercy from them?

5. What does Valla do the first time that Flashman makes a pass at her?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why East left Flashman to the Russians.

2. Explain why, even though Flashman is a British gentleman and soldier, Count Ignatieff tells him that Flashman will receive no mercy.

3. Describe how East and Flashman were treated in the house of Count Pencherjevsky.

4. Explain why Flashman called Yakub Beg and his companion Panthans.

5. Why does Scud East avoid family dinners with Count Pencherjevsky and his family?

6. Describe the dream the Flashman had the second night he was in the cell.

7. How does Flashman describe the passage through the Arabian Nights?

8. Describe why Flashman feels comforted by the desert.

9. Explain why Flashman might consider his predicament in Chapter 8 as "poetic justice".

10. Describe what happened with the priest and the political agitator, Blank.

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