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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 does East give Valla to make sure she sleeps for the majority of the ride?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Laudanum.
(c) Tylenol PM.
(d) Brandy.

2. How do Flashman and East discover Item 7?
(a) Valla tells East when they are in bed together.
(b) By eavesdropping on a secret military meeting.
(c) Valla tells Flashman when they are in bed together.
(d) Count Pencherjevsky confides in Flashman.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ignatieff asks Flashman about Item 7, what does he say?

2. What does Kutebar say that a word of thanks between warriors should be?

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

4. Why is Flashman annoyed at East for giving Valla something for sleep?

5. What is Flashman relieved to hear about Count Pencherjevsky and Valla?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does East feel when Flashman throw's Valla overboard? Describe his reaction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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