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

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

3. Who was Barlow?
(a) a lieutenant in the cantonment.
(b) the taciturn man from the Salt agency.
(c) the Magistrate's English manservant.
(d) a visiting dignitary.

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

5. What do the community members keep with them at all times during the cholera epidemic?
(a) a card with their preferred doctor written on it.
(b) the Bible.
(c) their Birth Certificate.
(d) their Last Will and Testament.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Jackson?

2. What beliefs does the Padre expound upon?

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

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

5. How does Dr. Dunstaple say cholera is transmitted?

(see the answer key)

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