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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. How does Dr. Dunstaple say cholera is transmitted?
(a) through blood transfusions.
(b) by kissing.
(c) by rice water.
(d) by damp air.

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

3. What is Fleury thinking about as the Padre and the Collector dig graves and argue?
(a) the seriousness of the siege.
(b) how he acted at the party in front of Louise.
(c) the difference between Protestantism and Catholicism.
(d) the comparison of the pariah dogs and the domestic dogs.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The two giant marble busts that Harry dragged to each side of the cannon were of whom?

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

4. Who was Jackson?

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

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