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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 The Forty-Niner, pgs. 54-109.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 burns himself with a cigar.
(d) He purposefully runs his leg into one of Susie's dressing table pins to elicit pain.

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

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

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

5. What does Flashman and his party find when they reach Bent's Fort?
(a) That it has been taken over by Native Americans.
(b) That everyone has been killed.
(c) That it has been blown up.
(d) That it is abandoned.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the first part of this book take place?

2. What does Flashman show the men that he is arguing with?

3. Where do Flashman and Spring go for refuge when they become fugitives?

4. How does the author begin Flashman and the Redskins?

5. What is Susie's solution to get Flashman out of New Orleans?

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