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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does East want to do with the information about Item 7?

2. What is the danger that East heard?

3. What is Flashman's survival strategy for when the odds are against him?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Explain why East left Flashman to the Russians.

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

6. Describe the incident when Flashman first sees how the Pencherjevsky family treats their serfs as sub-human.

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

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

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

10. Describe why Flashman feels comforted by the desert.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Harry Flashman to Count Pencherjevsky. Do you think they are similar sort of men, or very different? Support your answer using the text.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 9, Flashman has a strange dream while still in the cell with Yakub Beg and Kutebar. What do you think the dream means? Support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Harry Flashman is clearly the protagonist of the novel, but would you consider him a hero or an anti-hero? Support your answer with evidence from the text.

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