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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What briefly about Grattan Nugent-Hare scares Flashman?
(a) Grattan served in the British Army at the same time that Flashman did.
(b) Grattan knew Flashman's wife, Elspeth in England.
(c) Grattan pulls a gun on Flashman in order to intimidate him.
(d) Grattan seems like an unstable crazy person.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Flashman say he can feel aboard the steamship?

2. As Flashman and Wootton are eating buffalo, what frightens Flashman?

3. Who's camp does Flashman enter while riding alone on the prairie?

4. What does Flashman do that leads to rebellion?

5. Once Susie's girls' reputation is out, what do potential suitors begin to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Colonel Owens express admiration for Susie?

2. Describe Flashman's first experience with the Native Americans.

3. How does Flashman describe Wootton?

4. How does Susie get around selling any of her girls to prospective buyers?

5. How does Flashman say that he spent most of his time in the west?

6. Why does Flashman say that the first few days on the trail are an illusion?

7. How does Flashman persuade Wootton to let him act as if he is commanding the caravan?

8. How does Flashman attempt to persuade the pompous professor of his own expertise in the matter of the Native Americans?

9. Why does Susie decide to stay and set her business up in Santa Fe?

10. Describe why Flashman is a little nervous to be going to St. Louis.

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