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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has happened to Hari during his confinement in the tiger house?
(a) His personal hygiene has declined.
(b) He wants to join forces with the British to fight in the siege.
(c) He has become homesick for his father, the Maharajah.
(d) He has become delirious.

2. Why did the Collector sit for a long time contemplating his boots?
(a) The laces were missing.
(b) They were falling apart and couldn't be worn.
(c) They were covered with green mold.
(d) They sorely needed polishing.

3. Why did the Collector go to the roof of the banqueting hall?
(a) to be alone with his thoughts.
(b) to get some much needed fresh air.
(c) to survey the cantonment.
(d) to have a look at the river.

4. The Collector opens Hari's phrenology book to the section on what subject?
(a) faith.
(b) charity.
(c) hope.
(d) sexuality.

5. How much longer does the Collector estimate the food will last?
(a) another two or three weeks.
(b) another month or two.
(c) another two or three days.
(d) about a week.

6. What did the Padre dream about when he was asleep?
(a) that he had finally saved the people from Sin.
(b) that he was a lost sheep found by a shepherd.
(c) that the ravens were coming to feed him.
(d) that Jesus would feed them as he did the mulititudes.

7. The Collector lives until what year?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1880.

8. What happens to the Collector in Chapter 19?
(a) He and the Padre finally become close friends.
(b) He becomes closer to his children.
(c) He declares his love for Miriam.
(d) His eye becomes more inflamed and he becomes ill.

9. Which of the women does Dr. McNab ask to care for the ailing Collector?
(a) Lucy.
(b) Louise.
(c) the Collector's eldest daughter.
(d) Miriam.

10. What ladies is the Collector attracted to?
(a) ladies who succumb to sleep in his presence.
(b) ladies who are voluptuous.
(c) ladies who speak up to him.
(d) married ladies.

11. What child died of a sunstroke?
(a) Mary Potter.
(b) Liza Porter.
(c) Mary Ann Potts.
(d) Mary Painter.

12. Who is the mother of the baby who is born and survives in Chapter 23?
(a) Mrs. Browning.
(b) Mrs. White.
(c) Mrs. Wright.
(d) Mrs. Bennett.

13. What did Lucy want to eat?
(a) tea cakes.
(b) fruit and cheese.
(c) scones.
(d) vegetables and meat.

14. What did Fleury buy from one of the artillery women for ten pounds?
(a) a small piece of horse meat.
(b) a small jar of honey.
(c) a silk handkerchief.
(d) a teaspoonful of tea.

15. What shocked the Collector when he looked in the mirror?
(a) His beard was sprouting red hairs.
(b) Much of his hair had fallen out.
(c) His face was covered with red boils.
(d) His teeth were very dark brown.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fleury find beautiful in the morning in Chapter 30?

2. What were the holes dug slant-wise in the ground and filled with powder and stones called?

3. What was one of the characteristics of the black bugs called cockchafers?

4. What did the Collector call the Great Exhibition?

5. What insects does Fleury observe in the banqueting hall in Chapter 27?

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