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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 takes charge for an extra $100 a week.
(c) Flashman proposes that Wootton stay behind for an extra $100.
(d) Flashman proposes that Wootton let it look like Flashman is in charge for an extra $100 a week.

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

3. What does Flashman say he can feel aboard the steamship?
(a) The turbulent river.
(b) Fear.
(c) Nervousness.
(d) Hope.

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

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

6. 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 he doesn't condone it, but he doesn't condemn it.
(c) He says that he definitely condones it.
(d) He says that not only does he not condone it, he condemns it.

7. How does the author begin Flashman and the Redskins?
(a) In the middle of a battle scene.
(b) With an introduction.
(c) In the middle of a love scene.
(d) With Chapter 1.

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

9. How many other caravans does Flashman's caravan eventually join?
(a) 1.
(b) 12.
(c) 0.
(d) 3.

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

11. How does Flashman describe the people on their way to Oregon?
(a) As missionaries.
(b) As optimistic.
(c) As a serious lot who are farmers.
(d) As hopeless.

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

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

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

15. How much are they charging for claret at the hotel in St. Louis?
(a) Fifteen dollars.
(b) They aren't charging, it is free.
(c) One dollar.
(d) Five dollars.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At Fort Mann, what sickness are the Native American's suffering from?

3. How does Susie's method of getting rid of Spring sit with Flashman?

4. Who greets Flashman after the citadel explodes?

5. Who does Wootton introduce Flashman to?

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