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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. 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.

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

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

4. Where do Flashman, East and Valla first refuel and get supplies during their escape?
(a) At the Sea of Azov.
(b) In Yenitchi.
(c) Starotorsk.
(d) Arabat.

5. What does East give Valla to make sure she sleeps for the majority of the ride?
(a) Brandy.
(b) Tylenol PM.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Laudanum.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Flashman lie to Valla about?

2. Why is Kutebar in the cell?

3. Why is Flashman sure that Afghanistan will side with the Russians?

4. How does Flashman wake up on the second night of being in the cell?

5. What is the purpose of Aunt Sara introducing Flashman to the Russian steam bath?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does East feel when Flashman throw's Valla overboard? Describe his reaction.

4. Describe how Flashman sees his arrival in India going in Chapter 10.

5. Explain why East left Flashman to the Russians.

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

7. How does Flashman try to get out of helping Yakub Beg and his people fight the Russians?

8. Explain why Izzat Kutebar feels slightly ashamed of the way that he, Flashman and Yakub Beg were rescued from Fort Raim.

9. How does Flashman describe the landscape as they escape in Chapter 7?

10. What are the events that occur during the peasant rebellion, which allow Flashman and East to escape?

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