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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 The Forty-Niner, pgs. 148-207.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does the first part of this book take place?
(a) Chicago.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) New York.

3. Which of Susie's girls does Flashman sleep with first?
(a) Cleonie.
(b) Marie.
(c) Stephanie.
(d) Aphrodite.

4. What does Flashman show the men that he is arguing with?
(a) A scar that he got while in a bar fight.
(b) A place on his head where he was "scalped" by a Native American.
(c) A pound with the Queen's picture on it.
(d) A tattoo of the British flag.

5. What does Flashman learn about the group that rebelled?
(a) They perished on the Cimarron Road.
(b) No one knows what happened to them.
(c) They made it safely to Santa Fe already.
(d) They got lost, but made it back to Council Grove.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Flashman spared from being flayed and burned at the stake after the raid?

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

3. Who is the woman that Flashman saved from Nugent-Hare?

4. Who is the hunter that accompanies Flashman to Fort Laramie?

5. Who is the second of Susie's girls that Flashman sleeps with?

(see the answer key)

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