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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. Who took over the Commissariat from Mr. Rayne?

2. Who is made the godfather of the child?

3. What do the Sikhs refuse to do?

4. Who is the mother of the baby who is born and survives in Chapter 23?

5. What beliefs of the Magistrate have been eroded because of the siege?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does each person carry with him or her during the cholera epidemic?

2. What happens to Ford in Chapter 30 and what falls on the Collector?

3. What does Fleury hear in the morning which he finds beautiful? What is Ram's comment on this and Fleury's thought about it?

4. What is the Collector sitting on and what is he discussing with the Padre in Chapter 31?

5. What does Rayne, who is in charge of the Commissariat, do to enrage the Collector?

6. What are some of the desperate measures the people take to obtain food?

7. What is the seeming snow from the sky which causes confusion to the enemy and allows the men to reload their cannons?

8. What does the collector do when he finds out what Rayne has been up to?

9. Two babies are born in early August; which one survives and what is she named?

10. What has happened to the Collector's leather goods and clothing and notepaper?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Describe the friendship which has developed between Louise and Miriam. What do they discuss together? How are they similar? how different?

2) Describe Miriam''s relationship with the Collector and with Dr. McNab.

3) Describe the episode where the Chockchafer's cover Lucy and she strips naked. How do all the characters react to this incident?

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1) Describe Fleury's and his sister, Louise's time in Calcutta before they continue on to Krishnapur. What is the social scene like in Calcutta?

2) What happens to Harry in the bazaar on his way to Krishnapur?

3) What is Harry afraid of ? What frightens Fleury?

Choose two of the three questions to answer.

Essay Topic 3

1) Discuss Louise concern about Harry's interest in Lucy. Why is she concerned? What is her opinion of Lucy?

2) What three men do the Padre and the Collector have to bury? What is the dilemma and how does the Collector solve it?

3) What is the name of the well-liked little girl who dies in the novel. What does she inspire Fleury to do?

Choose two of the three to write on.

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