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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 The Forty-Niner, to pg. 54.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Flashman after the argument in the Traveler's Club?
(a) Everyone decides to get another drink and be done with it.
(b) He gets thrown out of the club.
(c) He decides to go home and sleep it off.
(d) He gets knocked out by an angry mob.

2. What language does Flashman state he never learned to speak properly?
(a) German.
(b) French.
(c) Apache.
(d) Sioux.

3. How does Susie get rid of Captain Spring?
(a) She seduces him and then tells Flashman who kicks him out.
(b) She doesn't get rid of him.
(c) She drugs him and has him put on a ship to Africa.
(d) She turns him in to the police.

4. Who does Flashman confront at the Travelers' Club?
(a) Captain Spring.
(b) The bartender.
(c) A pompous anthropologist.
(d) The doorman.

5. Once aboard the steamship, what does Flashman notice about the other passengers?
(a) That they are all heading out west to California.
(b) They they are all poor.
(c) That they are all silent.
(d) That they are all white.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Flashman and Spring go for refuge when they become fugitives?

2. How does Susie make her girls behave when traveling?

3. What does Flashman do to make himself cry?

4. In Part 1, The Forty-Niner, how old does Flashman say that he is while writing the memoir?

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

(see the answer key)

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