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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 make her girls behave when traveling?
(a) They must all look and act like prostitutes.
(b) They must all look and act like ladies.
(c) Susie lets them behave however they want.
(d) They must all stay inside their cabins at all times.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of Susie's girls does Flashman notice in particular?

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

4. What does Flashman do to make himself cry?

5. What does Captain Spring do for a living?

(see the answer key)

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