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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) He gets thrown out of the club.
(b) He decides to go home and sleep it off.
(c) Everyone decides to get another drink and be done with it.
(d) He gets knocked out by an angry mob.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does Peter Omohundro call Flashman?

2. What does Captain Spring do for a living?

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

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