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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What language does Captain Spring often quote literature and the Bible in?
(a) Italian.
(b) Latin.
(c) French.
(d) English.

5. 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.

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

7. Who gets Flashman the job with Captain Spring?
(a) Captain Spring's wife.
(b) Flashman's father-in-law.
(c) Captain Spring's daughter.
(d) Flashman's uncle.

8. When asked if he condoned Washington's treatment of the American Indian, how does Flashman reply?
(a) He says that he doesn't really know anything about it.
(b) He says that not only does he not condone it, he condemns it.
(c) He says that he definitely condones it.
(d) He says that he doesn't condone it, but he doesn't condemn it.

9. Which of Susie's girls does Flashman sleep with first?
(a) Cleonie.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Marie.
(d) Stephanie.

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

11. How does Nugent-Hare consider getting even with Flashman?
(a) He considers going back to Susie and taking over as man of the house.
(b) He considers injuring him.
(c) He considers killing him and making it look like an accident.
(d) He considers telling Susie who the real Flashman is.

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

13. How does Susie get rid of Captain Spring?
(a) She drugs him and has him put on a ship to Africa.
(b) She doesn't get rid of him.
(c) She turns him in to the police.
(d) She seduces him and then tells Flashman who kicks him out.

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

15. What road does Wootton specifically tell Flashman to avoid?
(a) The Sioux Highway.
(b) The Apache Road.
(c) The Cimarron Road.
(d) The Oregon Trail.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many other caravans does Flashman's caravan eventually join?

2. What else, besides sickness, worried Flashman about being in St. Louis?

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

4. What is Susie's solution to get Flashman out of New Orleans?

5. When the two best guides aren't available to take the party across the prairie, who does Susie deem worthy to lead?

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