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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. How many other caravans does Flashman's caravan eventually join?
(a) 0.
(b) 12.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

2. Who tells Flashman that all of Susie's girls know about his first tryst?
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) Stephanie.
(c) Marie.
(d) Cleonie.

3. How does Susie get rid of Captain Spring?
(a) She doesn't get rid of him.
(b) She drugs him and has him put on a ship to Africa.
(c) She turns him in to the police.
(d) She seduces him and then tells Flashman who kicks him out.

4. How does Flashman describe the people on their way to Oregon?
(a) As missionaries.
(b) As a serious lot who are farmers.
(c) As hopeless.
(d) As optimistic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What news does Captain Spring give to Flashman about his father-in-law?

2. Who gets Flashman the job with Captain Spring?

3. Who does Flashman grow quite fond of and call a "good conversationalist?"

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

5. Why does Flashman say that in St. Louis, you don't dare drink anything besides claret?

(see the answer key)

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