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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3 Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What wasn't the priest able to do because of the many people dying of cholera?
(a) keep his faith.
(b) hold church services.
(c) perform funerals.
(d) pray individually with the dying.

2. What did the other ladies of the Residency resent regarding Lucy?
(a) that she was better educated.
(b) that she was prettier than they were.
(c) that she was allowed to sleep in the Billiard room.
(d) that she wore such scant clothing.

3. The Collector oversleeps in the beginning of Chapter 10 but who made the round of the defenses in his place?
(a) the Magistrate.
(b) the Padre.
(c) Harry.
(d) Fleury.

4. The two giant marble busts that Harry dragged to each side of the cannon were of whom?
(a) Plato and Socrates.
(b) Aristotle and Homer.
(c) Voltaire and Baudelaire.
(d) Shakespeare and Hugo.

5. What was the physical manifestation of the Collector's grieving mind?
(a) the burned out bungalows.
(b) the piles of British possessions in the billiard room.
(c) the graves he digs.
(d) his shattered and dissheveled bedroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the community members keep with them at all times during the cholera epidemic?

2. What beliefs does the Padre expound upon?

3. Who was Barlow?

4. What color were the flags flying in the cantonment in Chapter 25?

5. What was bothering the Padre as he read aloud from the Bible?

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