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

2. What is the purpose of Aunt Sara introducing Flashman to the Russian steam bath?
(a) To warm him up from the bitter Russian cold.
(b) To seduce him and test his virility.
(c) To get him to bathe himself.
(d) To get him to relax.

3. Why does Flashman feel he would have been more qualified to deliver the message to Lord Raglan?
(a) Because Flashman could speak better Russian than East.
(b) Because he would have delivered it out of pure cowardice and self-love.
(c) Because he was a higher ranking officer in the military.
(d) Because he was more fit to travel.

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

5. What does Flashman admire about Count Pencherjevsky?
(a) His record as a solider.
(b) His brutish manner.
(c) His treatment of the serfs.
(d) His taste for fine things.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Once they arrive in Syr Daria, where is Flashman placed?

3. Why does Scud invite Flashman outside to go for a walk to talk?

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

5. Yakub Beg tells Flashman that he is the first foreigner to what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain how Flashman found out that the Silk One was actually a female.

3. Explain why East left Flashman to the Russians.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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