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

2. What language does Captain Spring often quote literature and the Bible in?
(a) Latin.
(b) French.
(c) English.
(d) Italian.

3. When asked if he condoned Washington's treatment of the American Indian, how does Flashman reply?
(a) He says that he doesn't really know anything about it.
(b) He says that he doesn't condone it, but he doesn't condemn it.
(c) He says that he definitely condones it.
(d) He says that not only does he not condone it, he condemns it.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After meeting Omohundro, why are Flashman and Spring on the run from the law?

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

3. What does Flashman say he has always been good with?

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

5. What else, besides sickness, worried Flashman about being in St. Louis?

(see the answer key)

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