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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 happens after the caravans come in contact with the stricken natives?
(a) Four people in the caravan get sick.
(b) Over half the people in the caravan get sick.
(c) One person in the caravan gets sick.
(d) They are lucky because no one falls ill.

2. Who gets Flashman the job with Captain Spring?
(a) Flashman's father-in-law.
(b) Captain Spring's wife.
(c) Captain Spring's daughter.
(d) Flashman's uncle.

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

4. Upon closer inspection of Bent's Fort, what do Flashman and his party find?
(a) That it's so nice they'd like to stay there for a while.
(b) That it's crawling with cockroaches.
(c) That it is very eerie.
(d) That it is rigged to explode with a single spark.

5. In Part 1, The Forty-Niner, how old does Flashman say that he is while writing the memoir?
(a) 101 years old.
(b) He doesn't mention it.
(c) 89 years old.
(d) 75 years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Flashman confront at the Travelers' Club?

2. What language does Flashman state he never learned to speak properly?

3. What road does Wootton specifically tell Flashman to avoid?

4. What do these other caravans consist of?

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

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