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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 aboard the steamship, what does Flashman notice about the other passengers?
(a) That they are all white.
(b) That they are all heading out west to California.
(c) They they are all poor.
(d) That they are all silent.

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

3. Who does Flashman learn are Susie's spies?
(a) Marie and Cleonie.
(b) Marie and Aphrodite.
(c) Aphrodite and Cleonie.
(d) Stephanie and Marie.

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

5. Shortly after Flashman joins them, who do Gallantin and his men seek revenge on, and for what?
(a) The Navajo for raiding a nearby hacienda.
(b) The Chumash for raiding a nearby hacienda.
(c) The Souix for raiding a nearby hacienda.
(d) The Apaches for raiding a nearby hacienda.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does Captain Spring often quote literature and the Bible in?

2. Once Susie's girls' reputation is out, what do potential suitors begin to do?

3. Why do Gallantin's men kill two of their own men?

4. Where does Flashman head to after leaving Santa Fe?

5. Which Native American tribe does Flashman fear the most?

(see the answer key)

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