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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. What briefly about Grattan Nugent-Hare scares Flashman?
(a) Grattan knew Flashman's wife, Elspeth in England.
(b) Grattan served in the British Army at the same time that Flashman did.
(c) Grattan pulls a gun on Flashman in order to intimidate him.
(d) Grattan seems like an unstable crazy person.

2. What road does Wootton specifically tell Flashman to avoid?
(a) The Apache Road.
(b) The Cimarron Road.
(c) The Sioux Highway.
(d) The Oregon Trail.

3. What does Flashman and his party find when they reach Bent's Fort?
(a) That it is abandoned.
(b) That it has been taken over by Native Americans.
(c) That it has been blown up.
(d) That everyone has been killed.

4. What does Flashman say he has always been good with?
(a) Politics.
(b) Women.
(c) Langauges.
(d) War.

5. Why does Flashman say that in St. Louis, you don't dare drink anything besides claret?
(a) Because of cholera.
(b) Because of malaria.
(c) Because of small pox.
(d) Because in St. Louis, you want to be drunk all the time.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who tells Flashman that all of Susie's girls know about his first tryst?

3. Why was Omohundro looking for Flashman?

4. What is the argument in the Traveler's Club about?

5. What does Flashman say he can feel aboard the steamship?

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