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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who rejoins the caravan after the battle at Fort Bent is over?
(a) Wootton.
(b) The Pittsburg Pirates.
(c) Spotted Tail.
(d) Captain Spring.

3. What does Grattan Nugent-Hare do after he is hired?
(a) He sleeps with Susie.
(b) He sleeps with Cleonie.
(c) He steals $2,000 from Susie and leaves.
(d) He is thankful and is very diligent at his job.

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

5. Why was Omohundro looking for Flashman?
(a) Because Flashman slept with his daughter.
(b) Because Flashman stole one of his slaves.
(c) Because Flashman slept with his wife.
(d) Because Flashman owed him some money.

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

7. What does Susie hire Grattan Nugent-Hare for?
(a) Her personal body guard.
(b) She doesn't hire him, she dismisses him.
(c) Security.
(d) Her personal assistant.

8. What part of Gallantin's raid does Flashman not take part in?
(a) He doesn't take part in the gang rape.
(b) He doesn't kill any women or children.
(c) He doesn't fire a single shot.
(d) He doesn't scalp any victims.

9. What agreement does Flashman come to with Wootton?
(a) Flashman proposes that Wootton let it look like Flashman is in charge for an extra $100 a week.
(b) Flashman doesn't come to any agreements with Wootton. They don't talk that much.
(c) Flashman proposes that Wootton takes charge for an extra $100 a week.
(d) Flashman proposes that Wootton stay behind for an extra $100.

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

11. Who's camp does Flashman enter while riding alone on the prairie?
(a) Spotted Tail's camp.
(b) Susie's camp.
(c) Nugen-Hare's camp.
(d) John Gallantin's camp.

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

13. What does Grattan Nugent-Hare notice about Flashman when he meets him again?
(a) That he doesn't have a British accent anymore.
(b) That he cut his hair.
(c) That he is travelling alone.
(d) That his name has changed from Comber to Flashman.

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

15. Who does Flashman grow quite fond of and call a "good conversationalist?"
(a) Marie.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Cleonie.
(d) Susie.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Susie make her girls behave when traveling?

2. What language does Flashman begin to learn while riding with Wootton?

3. What do these other caravans consist of?

4. What name does Peter Omohundro call Flashman?

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

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