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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. 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.

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

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

4. 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.

5. Flashman knows that Susie will take him in even though he's a fugitive. What does he find out when he goes to her?
(a) That she has decided to move her whole business to California.
(b) That she has moved to California.
(c) That she has married someone else and they are moving to California.
(d) That she hates him and never wants to see him again.

Short Answer Questions

1. When asked if he condoned Washington's treatment of the American Indian, how does Flashman reply?

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

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

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

5. What does Flashman do to make himself cry?

(see the answer key)

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