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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. What happens to Flashman after the argument in the Traveler's Club?
(a) He decides to go home and sleep it off.
(b) He gets thrown out of the club.
(c) Everyone decides to get another drink and be done with it.
(d) He gets knocked out by an angry mob.

2. Who is the Chief-Guard of the expedition?
(a) Wootton.
(b) Flashman.
(c) Grattan Nugent-Hare.
(d) Wild Bill.

3. 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.

4. Upon closer inspection of Bent's Fort, what do Flashman and his party find?
(a) That it's crawling with cockroaches.
(b) That it is very eerie.
(c) That it's so nice they'd like to stay there for a while.
(d) That it is rigged to explode with a single spark.

5. What does Flashman do to make himself cry?
(a) He doesn't cry.
(b) He burns himself with a cigar.
(c) He thinks of Elspeth and his son in England.
(d) He purposefully runs his leg into one of Susie's dressing table pins to elicit pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after the caravans come in contact with the stricken natives?

2. What else, besides sickness, worried Flashman about being in St. Louis?

3. Who does Flashman learn are Susie's spies?

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

5. What begins to drive Flashman crazy while on the trip?

(see the answer key)

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