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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 is the name of the man that Flashman relieves when he arrives in the cell?
(a) The Silk One
(b) Flashman can't understand his name.
(c) Izzat Kutebar
(d) Yakub Beg

2. 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 England.
(d) Back to Fort Raim.

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What noise does Kutebar make in the cell during the dead of night at Fort Raim?

2. Where do Flashman and Scud East know each other from?

3. How does the Count think of Flashman?

4. What does Kutebar say that a word of thanks between warriors should be?

5. Why does Flashman lie to Valla?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain why East left Flashman to the Russians.

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

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

5. Explain why Count Pencherjevsky doesn't like Valla's husband?

6. What obstacles must East and Flashman overcome in order to make a successful escape?

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

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

9. Describe why Flashman feels comforted by the desert.

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

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