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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 are Barlow and Mohammed ordered to do?
(a) take up sponge and ramrod.
(b) load the cannon.
(c) protect the women.
(d) take up positions on the veranda with rifles.

2. What does a man ask Harry to do as he passes through a bazaar?
(a) give him directions to the cantonment.
(b) give him some money for food.
(c) help a drunken English lady claiming she wants to kill herself.
(d) help his sick mother to get to a doctor.

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

4. Dr. Dunstaple makes fun of what native practice that Dr. McNab uses?
(a) leeches.
(b) ants as stitches.
(c) rubbing mud into wounds.
(d) bee pollen for the skin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Harry and Fleury set out into the town to rescue?

2. What beliefs of the Magistrate have been eroded because of the siege?

3. What smell does the Collector awake to?

4. What were the money lenders known as?

5. What did the Collector wear which symbolized his attempt to exhibit culture and inspiration to the besieged residents?

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