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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 is Susie's solution to get Flashman out of New Orleans?
(a) To ask him to go with her.
(b) To kidnap him.
(c) To drug him and take him with her.
(d) To marry him and take him with her.

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

3. What news does Captain Spring give to Flashman about his father-in-law?
(a) That his father-in-law is on his way to the U.S.
(b) That his father-in-law is dead.
(c) That his father-in-law is very ill.
(d) That his father-in-law disinherited Elspeth.

4. How does Susie's method of getting rid of Spring sit with Flashman?
(a) He doesn't really care because he is so in love with Susie.
(b) He feels uneasy about it.
(c) He thinks it's hilarious.
(d) He's just happy to be rid of that latin-speaking hypocrite.

5. How does Susie threaten her girls?
(a) She threatens to beat them.
(b) She threatens to leave them behind.
(c) She threatens to sell them.
(d) She threatens to fire them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does Flashman state he never learned to speak properly?

2. What language does Captain Spring often quote literature and the Bible in?

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

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

5. What does Flashman say he can feel aboard the steamship?

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