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

2. What makes Flashman re-think rebelling against the work he is doing in the cell?
(a) Yakub Beg's screams of agony.
(b) One look at Kutebar's face.
(c) He knows he needs these guys.
(d) He has nothing better to do.

3. Why is Kutebar in the cell?
(a) Because he tried to rescue the Silk One.
(b) Because he tried to rescue Yakub Beg.
(c) Because he stole from the Russians.
(d) Because he got drunk and picked fight with the Russians.

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

5. After the rescue, where do the Tajiks take Flashman after riding for hours?
(a) To India.
(b) An oasis deep in the Red Sands of Kizil Kum.
(c) Back to Russia.
(d) To Afghanistan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does East give Valla to make sure she sleeps for the majority of the ride?

2. Of the party that saves the three prisoners, who seems to have the authority?

3. What is the purpose of Aunt Sara introducing Flashman to the Russian steam bath?

4. How does Flashman flatter the Pencherjevsky family?

5. Who says "Put no faith in women, and as much in Chinese"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe how East and Flashman were treated in the house of Count Pencherjevsky.

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

5. Describe how Flashman sees his arrival in India going in Chapter 10.

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

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

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

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

10. Explain why East left Flashman to the Russians.

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