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

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

3. Where do Flashman and Spring go for refuge when they become fugitives?
(a) Another bar.
(b) They get on the first steamboat out of town.
(c) A whore house.
(d) They hide out in a hotel.

4. What name does Peter Omohundro call Flashman?
(a) Beauchamp Comber.
(b) Prescott.
(c) Harry Flashman.
(d) Captain Spring.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Flashman react to Susie's solution to get him out of New Orleans?

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

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

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

5. What briefly about Grattan Nugent-Hare scares Flashman?

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