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

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

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

4. What spirit does Fleury believe his century is based upon?
(a) the spirit of the Old Testament.
(b) the spirit of rationalism.
(c) the spirit of science and invention.
(d) the spirit of the New Testament.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What wasn't the priest able to do because of the many people dying of cholera?

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