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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Susie hire Grattan Nugent-Hare for?
(a) Her personal assistant.
(b) She doesn't hire him, she dismisses him.
(c) Security.
(d) Her personal body guard.

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

3. How does Susie threaten her girls?
(a) She threatens to leave them behind.
(b) She threatens to sell them.
(c) She threatens to beat them.
(d) She threatens to fire them.

4. What happens to Flashman after the argument in the Traveler's Club?
(a) He decides to go home and sleep it off.
(b) Everyone decides to get another drink and be done with it.
(c) He gets knocked out by an angry mob.
(d) He gets thrown out of the club.

5. What agreement does Flashman come to with Wootton?
(a) Flashman doesn't come to any agreements with Wootton. They don't talk that much.
(b) Flashman proposes that Wootton stay behind for an extra $100.
(c) Flashman proposes that Wootton let it look like Flashman is in charge for an extra $100 a week.
(d) Flashman proposes that Wootton takes charge for an extra $100 a week.

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

7. What does Nugent-Hare reveal to Flashman?
(a) That he was in love with Susie.
(b) That he'd known who Flashman was all along.
(c) That his name isn't really Nugent-Hare.
(d) That he'd been having an affair with Susie since Council Grove.

8. Who greets Flashman after the citadel explodes?
(a) Spotted Tail.
(b) Apaches.
(c) Cheyenne.
(d) Mountain men.

9. What does Flashman do with Cleonie as he is leaving Santa Fe?
(a) He makes arrangements for her to escape slavery.
(b) He sells her to the Native Americans for $2,000.
(c) He makes her stay with Susie.
(d) He takes her away with him.

10. Who does Flashman confront at the Travelers' Club?
(a) A pompous anthropologist.
(b) The bartender.
(c) Captain Spring.
(d) The doorman.

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 telling Susie who the real Flashman is.
(d) He considers killing him and making it look like an accident.

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

13. 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) 75 years old.
(d) 89 years old.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Shortly after Flashman joins them, who do Gallantin and his men seek revenge on, and for what?

2. Which Native American tribe does Flashman fear the most?

3. What do these other caravans consist of?

4. Why was Omohundro looking for Flashman?

5. Flashman knows that Susie will take him in even though he's a fugitive. What does he find out when he goes to her?

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