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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Shortly after Flashman joins them, who do Gallantin and his men seek revenge on, and for what?
(a) The Chumash for raiding a nearby hacienda.
(b) The Navajo for raiding a nearby hacienda.
(c) The Souix for raiding a nearby hacienda.
(d) The Apaches for raiding a nearby hacienda.

4. What is the first place that the party heads for?
(a) The Oregon Trail.
(b) Little Rock.
(c) Santa Fe.
(d) Council Grove.

5. Who does Flashman grow quite fond of and call a "good conversationalist?"
(a) Susie.
(b) Cleonie.
(c) Marie.
(d) Aphrodite.

6. What does Susie ultimately decide to do after reaching Santa Fe?
(a) She's not sure whether she wants to push forward or not.
(b) To head back to New Orleans.
(c) To stay in Santa Fe and set up her business there.
(d) To head to San Francisco as soon as possible.

7. What is the argument in the Traveler's Club about?
(a) The fact that they wouldn't serve Flashman another drink.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The United States ill-treatment of the Native Americans.
(d) The Underground Railroad.

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

9. What does Flashman do to make himself cry?
(a) He doesn't cry.
(b) He thinks of Elspeth and his son in England.
(c) He purposefully runs his leg into one of Susie's dressing table pins to elicit pain.
(d) He burns himself with a cigar.

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

11. What news does Captain Spring give to Flashman about his father-in-law?
(a) That his father-in-law is very ill.
(b) That his father-in-law is dead.
(c) That his father-in-law is on his way to the U.S.
(d) That his father-in-law disinherited Elspeth.

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

13. What disgusts Flashman after the raid?
(a) That a man assaults a woman in public.
(b) That they are raping their victims.
(c) That they are scalping their vicitims.
(d) That they killed women and children.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the second of Susie's girls that Flashman sleeps with?

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

3. What language does Captain Spring often quote literature and the Bible in?

4. What happens after the caravans come in contact with the stricken natives?

5. What does Captain Spring do for a living?

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