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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 The Forty-Niner, pgs. 109-148.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once Susie's girls' reputation is out, what do potential suitors begin to do?
(a) They start to fall in love with the girls they are with.
(b) They grow bored with the girls.
(c) They begin to see that they don't like this business.
(d) Many rich men come forward and offer to buy them outright.

2. What does Nugent-Hare reveal to Flashman?
(a) That he'd known who Flashman was all along.
(b) That he was in love with Susie.
(c) That he'd been having an affair with Susie since Council Grove.
(d) That his name isn't really Nugent-Hare.

3. Who is the second of Susie's girls that Flashman sleeps with?
(a) Marie.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Stephanie.
(d) Cleonie.

4. Three days into the journey west, what two trails diverge?
(a) The Santa Fe and Route 66.
(b) The Oregon Trail and Route 66.
(c) The trails don't diverge, they are the same trail.
(d) The Santa Fe and the Oregon Trail

5. How does Susie make her girls behave when traveling?
(a) They must all look and act like prostitutes.
(b) Susie lets them behave however they want.
(c) They must all look and act like ladies.
(d) They must all stay inside their cabins at all times.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In Part 1, The Forty-Niner, how old does Flashman say that he is while writing the memoir?

5. What does Flashman show the men that he is arguing with?

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