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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What name does Susie know Flashman as?
(a) Beauchamp Comber.
(b) Harry Flashman.
(c) Harry Comber.
(d) Flashy.

4. What happens after the caravans come in contact with the stricken natives?
(a) Four people in the caravan get sick.
(b) Over half the people in the caravan get sick.
(c) One person in the caravan gets sick.
(d) They are lucky because no one falls ill.

5. How does Flashman describe the people on their way to Oregon?
(a) As optimistic.
(b) As missionaries.
(c) As hopeless.
(d) As a serious lot who are farmers.

6. What language does Flashman begin to learn while riding with Wootton?
(a) Navajo.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Apache.
(d) Sioux.

7. How does Susie's business fare in the new city that she has chosen to set up shop in?
(a) It's going okay, but not great.
(b) Terribly, she contemplates going back to New Orleans.
(c) Extremely well. It was a good decision to stay.
(d) Terribly, she contemplates going on to California.

8. Where do Flashman and Spring go for refuge when they become fugitives?
(a) They hide out in a hotel.
(b) A whore house.
(c) They get on the first steamboat out of town.
(d) Another bar.

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

10. How does the author begin Flashman and the Redskins?
(a) With Chapter 1.
(b) With an introduction.
(c) In the middle of a love scene.
(d) In the middle of a battle scene.

11. In Part 1, The Forty-Niner, how old does Flashman say that he is while writing the memoir?
(a) He doesn't mention it.
(b) 101 years old.
(c) 89 years old.
(d) 75 years old.

12. As Flashman and Wootton are eating buffalo, what frightens Flashman?
(a) They see a Native American war party.
(b) Nothing, Flashman remains blissfully ignorant.
(c) Wootton frightens Flashman a bit.
(d) Three Native Americans who sneak up on them.

13. What language does Flashman state he never learned to speak properly?
(a) Sioux.
(b) Apache.
(c) German.
(d) French.

14. Who is the Chief-Guard of the expedition?
(a) Wootton.
(b) Grattan Nugent-Hare.
(c) Flashman.
(d) Wild Bill.

15. At Fort Mann, what sickness are the Native American's suffering from?
(a) Small Pox.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Food poisoning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Flashman that all of Susie's girls know about his first tryst?

2. Why do Gallantin's men kill two of their own men?

3. What news does Captain Spring give to Flashman about his father-in-law?

4. Why was Omohundro looking for Flashman?

5. Who does Wootton introduce Flashman to?

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