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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 The Forty-Niner, pgs. 54-109.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Flashman and Wootton are eating buffalo, what frightens Flashman?
(a) Three Native Americans who sneak up on them.
(b) Nothing, Flashman remains blissfully ignorant.
(c) They see a Native American war party.
(d) Wootton frightens Flashman a bit.

2. How does Susie threaten her girls?
(a) She threatens to leave them behind.
(b) She threatens to fire them.
(c) She threatens to beat them.
(d) She threatens to sell them.

3. What briefly about Grattan Nugent-Hare scares Flashman?
(a) Grattan seems like an unstable crazy person.
(b) Grattan pulls a gun on Flashman in order to intimidate him.
(c) Grattan knew Flashman's wife, Elspeth in England.
(d) Grattan served in the British Army at the same time that Flashman did.

4. What is the argument in the Traveler's Club about?
(a) The Underground Railroad.
(b) The fact that they wouldn't serve Flashman another drink.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) The United States ill-treatment of the Native Americans.

5. Which of Susie's girls does Flashman notice in particular?
(a) He doesn't notice them--he's in love with Susie.
(b) Poppaea and Cleonie.
(c) Aphrodite and Cleonie.
(d) Aphrodite and Poppaea

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Flashman describe the people on their way to Oregon?

2. What language does Flashman state he never learned to speak properly?

3. Who tells Flashman that all of Susie's girls know about his first tryst?

4. What does Flashman say he has always been good with?

5. When asked if he condoned Washington's treatment of the American Indian, how does Flashman reply?

(see the answer key)

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