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

2. What begins to drive Flashman crazy while on the trip?
(a) Wootton.
(b) Susie's incessent chatter.
(c) The Immigrants.
(d) The endless prairie.

3. What does Flashman say he can feel aboard the steamship?
(a) Nervousness.
(b) Hope.
(c) Fear.
(d) The turbulent river.

4. What does Flashman do that leads to rebellion?
(a) He takes the Cimarron Road.
(b) He lowers the food rations.
(c) He abandons the caravan.
(d) He decides to head back to Council Grove.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of Susie's girls does Flashman notice in particular?

3. Once aboard the steamship, what does Flashman notice about the other passengers?

4. Flashman knows that Susie will take him in even though he's a fugitive. What does he find out when he goes to her?

5. How does Susie's method of getting rid of Spring sit with Flashman?

(see the answer key)

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