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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. At Fort Mann, what sickness are the Native American's suffering from?
(a) Small Pox.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Food poisoning.
(d) Malaria.
2. How does Susie threaten her girls?
(a) She threatens to leave them behind.
(b) She threatens to sell them.
(c) She threatens to beat them.
(d) She threatens to fire them.
3. Upon closer inspection of Bent's Fort, what do Flashman and his party find?
(a) That it is very eerie.
(b) That it's so nice they'd like to stay there for a while.
(c) That it's crawling with cockroaches.
(d) That it is rigged to explode with a single spark.
4. Flashman knows that Susie will take him in even though he's a fugitive. What does he find out when he goes to her?
(a) That she has married someone else and they are moving to California.
(b) That she hates him and never wants to see him again.
(c) That she has moved to California.
(d) That she has decided to move her whole business to California.
5. What begins to drive Flashman crazy while on the trip?
(a) The endless prairie.
(b) Susie's incessent chatter.
(c) Wootton.
(d) The Immigrants.
6. Once Susie's girls' reputation is out, what do potential suitors begin to do?
(a) They grow bored with the girls.
(b) They start to fall in love with the girls they are with.
(c) They begin to see that they don't like this business.
(d) Many rich men come forward and offer to buy them outright.
7. Why does Flashman say that in St. Louis, you don't dare drink anything besides claret?
(a) Because of cholera.
(b) Because of small pox.
(c) Because of malaria.
(d) Because in St. Louis, you want to be drunk all the time.
8. Who's camp does Flashman enter while riding alone on the prairie?
(a) John Gallantin's camp.
(b) Spotted Tail's camp.
(c) Nugen-Hare's camp.
(d) Susie's camp.
9. How does Susie's method of getting rid of Spring sit with Flashman?
(a) He doesn't really care because he is so in love with Susie.
(b) He's just happy to be rid of that latin-speaking hypocrite.
(c) He feels uneasy about it.
(d) He thinks it's hilarious.
10. What happens after the caravans come in contact with the stricken natives?
(a) Over half the people in the caravan get sick.
(b) Four people in the caravan get sick.
(c) They are lucky because no one falls ill.
(d) One person in the caravan gets sick.
11. How does Flashman react to Susie's solution to get him out of New Orleans?
(a) He is surprised, but he's also happy to be with Susie.
(b) He is surprised, but also angry at Susie for deceiving him.
(c) He tries to escape from Susie's.
(d) He is surprised, but feins awe and love.
12. 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.
13. What disgusts Flashman after the raid?
(a) That they killed women and children.
(b) That they are raping their victims.
(c) That a man assaults a woman in public.
(d) That they are scalping their vicitims.
14. Who gets Flashman the job with Captain Spring?
(a) Flashman's father-in-law.
(b) Captain Spring's wife.
(c) Flashman's uncle.
(d) Captain Spring's daughter.
15. Why do Gallantin's men kill two of their own men?
(a) Because they were traitors.
(b) Because they were sympathetic to the Native Americans.
(c) Because they balked at the idea of scalping.
(d) Because they were weak.
Short Answer Questions
1. Three days into the journey west, what two trails diverge?
2. Which Native American tribe does Flashman fear the most?
3. What road does Wootton specifically tell Flashman to avoid?
4. How does Susie's business fare in the new city that she has chosen to set up shop in?
5. What do these other caravans consist of?
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