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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the Collector's English manservant?

2. What was the escaped monkey still wearing?

3. Dr. Dunstaple makes fun of what native practice that Dr. McNab uses?

4. Who were the dhobi?

5. Which of the men had invented a two-pronged spear, "the Eradicator"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Padre do during this attack in Chapter 10?

2. What are the names of the Collector's eldest daughters and what do they do each day which annoys him?

3. What are some of the wonders of nature which the Padre mentions while extolling God?

4. Whose birthday is celebrated in Chapter 16 and what does Louise make as a present?

5. What did the Padre complain about?

6. Who do Harry and Fleury go back to try to save and what is the outcome?

7. What three men do the Padre and the Collector have to bury and what is the problem concerning the burial?

8. What smell awakens the Collector in the night?

9. What happens in the Collector's study when he returns there?

10. What are some of the ominous signs of future danger in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Compare the characters of Harry and Fleury. How are they alike, how different?

2) Compare the characters of the Magistrate and the Collector, their similarities , their differences.

3) Compare the characters of Lucy and Louise.

Choose two of the three character comparisons to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1) Describe the final attack on the Residency. What are some of the comical moments which take place during this attack?

2) Describe Fleury's reaction to hearing the singing of prayers and the tolling of bells floating over the plain. What does he ponder while listening to the beauty of the singing?

3) Who ends up married to whom after the siege is over and life returns to normal?

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 3

1) Two babies are born in the beginning of August. Which baby survives? What is it named? Who becomes its godfather?

2) What does the Collector do that is an affront to social protocol? This action by the Collector results in which character disappearing?

3) What clever suggestion does Harry come up with to help defend the Residency? Describe how it is implemented.

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

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