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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3 Chapter 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Louise and Miriam banter about?
(a) each other's "conquests".
(b) their looks.
(c) their skill at poetry.
(d) how they miss England.

2. What beliefs of the Magistrate have been eroded because of the siege?
(a) beliefs in religion and God.
(b) beliefs in progress and scientific discoveries.
(c) beliefs in the class system in England and India.
(d) beliefs in Chartism, factory reform and social change.

3. Who arrives wounded in Part 1, Chapter 6?
(a) the Collector.
(b) the general.
(c) the Magistrate.
(d) Dr. McNab.

4. What people were assumed to be immune to cholera?
(a) Moslems.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Jews.
(d) Hindus.

5. What do the Magistrate and the local people argue about?
(a) the British occupation of India.
(b) the yearly flood of the river.
(c) the pariah dogs.
(d) Mohammedanism versus Hinduism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who saved Fleury at the last moment when he was waiting for a sepoy to pierce him with a sabre?

2. What does Dr. Dunstaple call Dr. McNab?

3. What was the escaped monkey still wearing?

4. What was the physical manifestation of the Collector's grieving mind?

5. What do the Padre and Vokins do to help during the siege?

(see the answer key)

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