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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 The Forty-Niner, pgs. 54-109.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of Susie's girls does Flashman notice in particular?
(a) He doesn't notice them--he's in love with Susie.
(b) Poppaea and Cleonie.
(c) Aphrodite and Cleonie.
(d) Aphrodite and Poppaea

2. What begins to drive Flashman crazy while on the trip?
(a) Susie's incessent chatter.
(b) The endless prairie.
(c) Wootton.
(d) The Immigrants.

3. What do these other caravans consist of?
(a) Immigrants and invalids.
(b) Immigrants and laborers.
(c) The Pittsburg Pirates, immigrant families, clerks & laborers and "invalids".
(d) The Pittsburg Pirates and invalids.

4. What does Captain Spring do for a living?
(a) He runs an illegal slaving operation.
(b) He's a gambler.
(c) He's a preacher.
(d) He sails yachts for wealthy people.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Flashman say he has always been good with?

3. How does Susie get rid of Captain Spring?

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

5. How does Susie's method of getting rid of Spring sit with Flashman?

(see the answer key)

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