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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. The two giant marble busts that Harry dragged to each side of the cannon were of whom?
(a) Plato and Socrates.
(b) Aristotle and Homer.
(c) Voltaire and Baudelaire.
(d) Shakespeare and Hugo.

2. 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.

3. What was bothering the Padre as he read aloud from the Bible?
(a) his weakened physical condition.
(b) the thick quantity of flies crawling on the pages.
(c) his wandering thoughts.
(d) the lack of attention of the people he read to.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Barlow?

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

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

4. Who was Jackson?

5. What kind of treatment mentioned by Dr. McNab alarms the crowd?

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