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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. When Ignatieff asks Flashman about Item 7, what does he say?
(a) He lies to Ignatieff and sends him on a false trail.
(b) He refuses to tell Ignatieff anything.
(c) He passes out from fear.
(d) He cries and tell Ignatieff everything he knows.

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

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

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

5. When Flashman finally goes to his cell after witnessing the "demonstration", why does he feel relieved?
(a) Flashman just wants to get some sleep.
(b) Flashman is happy to get away from Count Ignatieff's evil eyes.
(c) Flashman is eager to plan his esacpe.
(d) Flashman is relieved he wasn't knouted.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do East and Flashman manage the 5 to 6 hour sled ride to Yenitchi without freezing to death?

2. What action does Flashman take to accomplish the task of making the sled go faster?

3. How do the two other prisoners at Fort Raim talk to each other?

4. How does the Count think of Flashman?

5. What does the Silk One do to help persuade Flashman to fight?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Explain why Flashman is momentarily wary of seeing Scud East at Pencherjevsky's estate.

5. Explain why Count Ignatieff decides to take Flashman with him to India.

6. Explain why East left Flashman to the Russians.

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

8. Describe why Flashman feels comforted by the desert.

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

10. How does the Silk One react to Flashman's reasoning for not wanting to help Yakub Beg and his people fight the Russians?

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