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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 decides to go home and sleep it off.
(c) He gets knocked out by an angry mob.
(d) He gets thrown out of the club.

2. What does Flashman do to make himself cry?
(a) He burns himself with a cigar.
(b) He doesn't cry.
(c) He purposefully runs his leg into one of Susie's dressing table pins to elicit pain.
(d) He thinks of Elspeth and his son in England.

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

4. After meeting Omohundro, why are Flashman and Spring on the run from the law?
(a) Because bar fighting is illegal.
(b) Because they didn't pay for their drinks.
(c) Because Spring killed Omohundro.
(d) Because Flashman killed Omohundro.

5. What does Flashman say he has always been good with?
(a) Politics.
(b) Women.
(c) Langauges.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What name does Peter Omohundro call Flashman?

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

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

5. How does the author begin Flashman and the Redskins?

(see the answer key)

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