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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3 Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Jackson?
(a) the Padre's favorite parishoner.
(b) Dr. Dunstaple's nephew.
(c) an indigo farmer who died during the siege.
(d) the soldier who had been singing about the Crimea.

2. Which of the men had invented a two-pronged spear, "the Eradicator"?
(a) Cutter.
(b) Lieutenant Peterson.
(c) Harry.
(d) Fleury.

3. What smell does the Collector awake to?
(a) the smell of rotting melons.
(b) the smell of burning bungalows.
(c) the smell of someone cooking wild pig.
(d) the smell of jasmine growing outside his window.

4. What had been planned militarily for Tuesday, July 7th?
(a) dispersing the watching native crowd with canon shot.
(b) springing Cutter's mine beneath the sepoy positions.
(c) reinforcing the ramparts of the Residency.
(d) a surprise attack with canon against the sepoys.

5. Who is accidentally lifted off the ground by the Eradicator?
(a) Mr. Rose.
(b) the Collector.
(c) Harry.
(d) Mr. Simmons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Magistrate and the local people argue about?

2. Who, besides Fleury, was affected deeply by the young orphan girl's death?

3. What did Dr. Dunstaple look like?

4. What is chapatis?

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

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