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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Flashman do that leads to rebellion?
(a) He lowers the food rations.
(b) He decides to head back to Council Grove.
(c) He abandons the caravan.
(d) He takes the Cimarron Road.

4. What does Grattan Nugent-Hare do after he is hired?
(a) He sleeps with Cleonie.
(b) He is thankful and is very diligent at his job.
(c) He steals $2,000 from Susie and leaves.
(d) He sleeps with Susie.

5. Who is the second of Susie's girls that Flashman sleeps with?
(a) Marie.
(b) Stephanie.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Cleonie.

6. When the two best guides aren't available to take the party across the prairie, who does Susie deem worthy to lead?
(a) Flashman.
(b) No one.
(c) Wootton.
(d) Herself.

7. Who does Wootton introduce Flashman to?
(a) Wild Bill.
(b) John Wayne.
(c) Spotted Tail, a Sioux.
(d) Gironimo.

8. 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.

9. What does Grattan Nugent-Hare notice about Flashman when he meets him again?
(a) That he doesn't have a British accent anymore.
(b) That he is travelling alone.
(c) That his name has changed from Comber to Flashman.
(d) That he cut his hair.

10. Who tells Flashman that all of Susie's girls know about his first tryst?
(a) Marie.
(b) Cleonie.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Stephanie.

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

12. What does Flashman show the men that he is arguing with?
(a) A tattoo of the British flag.
(b) A pound with the Queen's picture on it.
(c) A scar that he got while in a bar fight.
(d) A place on his head where he was "scalped" by a Native American.

13. How does Flashman earn Wootton's respect?
(a) Flashman is an honorable man.
(b) Wootton knows of Flashman's impressive military history.
(c) Flashman shoots and kills a buffalo on the first try.
(d) Flashman is a very good rider.

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

15. Where does Wootton finally lead the party?
(a) Santa Fe.
(b) Oregon.
(c) Council Grove.
(d) California.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Susie threaten her girls?

2. Who does Flashman grow quite fond of and call a "good conversationalist?"

3. How does Flashman describe the people on their way to Oregon?

4. What ultimately happens to Nugent-Hare?

5. What name does Peter Omohundro call Flashman?

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