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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 was shattering the Collector's nerves in Chapter 10?
(a) the sound of the jackals howling.
(b) the extreme heat.
(c) the complaining of the women.
(d) the high, shrill voice of the Padre.

2. What beliefs does the Padre expound upon?
(a) beliefs about phrenology.
(b) German rationalist beliefs.
(c) beliefs in an afterlife.
(d) beliefs in the superiority of the British.

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

4. What kind of treatment mentioned by Dr. McNab alarms the crowd?
(a) Hindu sacrifice of animals.
(b) blood letting.
(c) voodoo.
(d) Chinese acupuncture.

5. What color were the flags flying in the cantonment in Chapter 25?
(a) black.
(b) red..
(c) white.
(d) Union Jack.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Fleury thinking about as the Padre and the Collector dig graves and argue?

3. What did the other ladies of the Residency resent regarding Lucy?

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

5. The Collector oversleeps in the beginning of Chapter 10 but who made the round of the defenses in his place?

(see the answer key)

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