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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 The Forty-Niner, pgs. 109-148.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Captain Spring do for a living?
(a) He's a gambler.
(b) He runs an illegal slaving operation.
(c) He sails yachts for wealthy people.
(d) He's a preacher.

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

4. What does Flashman show the men that he is arguing with?
(a) A pound with the Queen's picture on it.
(b) A scar that he got while in a bar fight.
(c) A tattoo of the British flag.
(d) A place on his head where he was "scalped" by a Native American.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Flashman and his party find when they reach Bent's Fort?

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

3. What does Grattan Nugent-Hare do after he is hired?

4. What does Flashman do that leads to rebellion?

5. In Part 1, The Forty-Niner, how old does Flashman say that he is while writing the memoir?

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