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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 89 years old.
(c) 101 years old.
(d) 75 years old.

2. Why won't the girls tell Susie about Flashman's infidelity?
(a) Because they are afriad of getting sold.
(b) Because they don't really care.
(c) Because they don't want to hurt Susie.
(d) Because they all want to please Flashman.

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

4. Who's camp does Flashman enter while riding alone on the prairie?
(a) Susie's camp.
(b) Nugen-Hare's camp.
(c) Spotted Tail's camp.
(d) John Gallantin's camp.

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

6. Where does Flashman head to after leaving Santa Fe?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) New York.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Albuquerque.

7. What does Flashman learn about the group that rebelled?
(a) They made it safely to Santa Fe already.
(b) No one knows what happened to them.
(c) They got lost, but made it back to Council Grove.
(d) They perished on the Cimarron Road.

8. Where is Flashman and his party headed once they board the smaller boat?
(a) Texas.
(b) Oregon.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Missouri.

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

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

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

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

13. What ultimately happens to Nugent-Hare?
(a) He is terrified and runs off.
(b) He gets scalped.
(c) He is killed by Flashman with his own blade as they are fighting over a female.
(d) He wets himself.

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

15. How does Susie's method of getting rid of Spring sit with Flashman?
(a) He doesn't really care because he is so in love with Susie.
(b) He's just happy to be rid of that latin-speaking hypocrite.
(c) He thinks it's hilarious.
(d) He feels uneasy about it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who greets Flashman after the citadel explodes?

2. What is the argument in the Traveler's Club about?

3. What name does Susie know Flashman as?

4. How does Susie's business fare in the new city that she has chosen to set up shop in?

5. What does the party find out about the trip to California?

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