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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What area do the British assign Major Hogan to defend?
(a) Dunstaple's house, Cutcherry and rampart.
(b) the riverbank and melon fields.
(c) the church and graveyard.
(d) the native town and the mosque.

2. What appears in one of the rooms of the palace to the embarrassment of Hari?
(a) a monkey.
(b) a large spider.
(c) a local prostitute.
(d) an escaped cow.

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

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

5. What one person besides the poorest natives in Krishnapur ate the melons?
(a) Harry.
(b) Lieutenant Cutter.
(c) the Magistrate.
(d) the Collector.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is chapatis?

2. What did the frog do in the Sanskrit poem the Collector remembers?

3. What is the name of cemeteries in Krishnapur?

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

5. What was the name of the Collector's English manservant?

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