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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3 Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the frog do in the Sanskrit poem the Collector remembers?
(a) took itself to the refuge of the river during the hot spell.
(b) sang all night long.
(c) reclined beneath the hood of the cobra.
(d) buried itself in the cool mud.

2. Who, besides Fleury, was affected deeply by the young orphan girl's death?
(a) Dr. McNab.
(b) the Collector.
(c) Harry.
(d) Dr. Dunstaple.

3. Who is the mother of the baby who is born and survives in Chapter 23?
(a) Mrs. Browning.
(b) Mrs. Bennett.
(c) Mrs. White.
(d) Mrs. Wright.

4. What does Dr. McNab think causes cholera?
(a) filth and lack of hygiene.
(b) infected mosquitoes.
(c) rice water.
(d) spoiled, infected food.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dr. Dunstaple say cholera is transmitted?

2. What were the names of the Collector's daughters who watched him through the telescope?

3. What wasn't the priest able to do because of the many people dying of cholera?

4. Fleury is afraid of the statue of what Indian God?

5. Which of the women had a beautiful voice and sang "Oh God our help in ages past..."?

(see the answer key)

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