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

2. What happened to cause the sepoy attack to be repulsed?
(a) The monsoon rains began, blinding the sepoys.
(b) Paperwork from the Cutcherry rained from the sky like snow.
(c) The superior weaponery of the British prevailed.
(d) Native Christians, Eurasians and Sikhs helped the British.

3. What was Miriam's married name?
(a) Mrs. Lang.
(b) Mrs. Logan.
(c) Mrs. Little.
(d) Mrs. Ledbetter.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lucy want to eat?

2. What sensible idea did Harry Dunstaple come up with?

3. Lucy had the ingenious idea of hanging a kettle over the fire from the leg of what piece of furniture?

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

5. What has happened to Hari during his confinement in the tiger house?

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