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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Flashman's survival strategy for when the odds are against him?
(a) To win over his captors.
(b) To focus.
(c) To have a positive attitude.
(d) To stay calm and cheat.

3. Who is the Silk One's father?
(a) Yakub Beg.
(b) Ko Dali.
(c) Kutebar.
(d) They don't know.

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

5. What does Flashman surmise is the only way that people like Scud East and Tom Brown will ever be happy?
(a) If they live a quiet, Christian life.
(b) Flashman doesn't think they will ever be happy.
(c) If they ever fell in love and got married.
(d) If their morality is being tried and they can feel like they are doing the right thing.

6. What is the danger that East heard?
(a) The crying of a woman.
(b) The cry of wolves.
(c) The shooting of guns.
(d) Distant hoof beats.

7. What does Valla do the first time that Flashman makes a pass at her?
(a) She runs to find Scud East.
(b) She punches him in the groin.
(c) She gives in very quickly.
(d) She screams and runs away.

8. Where does Flashman say he will finally feel safe?
(a) Only when Count Ignatieff is dead.
(b) Only when he reaches London and his favorite ale house.
(c) Only when he is able to get the news of the Russian invasion to his commanders.
(d) Only when he is back in Elspeth's arms.

9. Who does Flashman blame for him learning about Item 7?
(a) Valla.
(b) Count Pencherjevsky.
(c) Scud East.
(d) Aunt Sara.

10. 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.

11. How does the Count feel about Scud East?
(a) He doesn't really care one way or another.
(b) He thinks of East as a son.
(c) He thinks East is soft and doesn't like him much.
(d) He wishes East were his son-in-law.

12. Why does Count Ignatieff warn Flashman not to expect any mercy from them?
(a) Because Counter Pencherjevsky is too nice to Flashman.
(b) Because Flashman broke his promise and tried to escape.
(c) Because they don't believe in mercy.
(d) Because Flashman is too cowardly for mercy.

13. What does the Silk One call Flashman?
(a) A very brave man.
(b) A fool.
(c) An infidel.
(d) A coward.

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

15. What fairytale character does Flashman compare Count Pencherjevsky to?
(a) The wolf in Little Red Riding Hood.
(b) Grumpy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
(c) The giant from Jack and the Bean Stalk.
(d) The evil queen in Sleeping Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Flashman suppose in the first line of Chapter 8?

2. Why does Flashman lie to Valla?

3. When the Russians surround Flashman, what does he say he is waiting for?

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

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

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