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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4 Chapter 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was bothering the Padre as he read aloud from the Bible?
(a) his weakened physical condition.
(b) the thick quantity of flies crawling on the pages.
(c) the lack of attention of the people he read to.
(d) his wandering thoughts.

2. Who is Hookum Singh?
(a) an enemy sepoy felled in battle.
(b) a giant Sikh.
(c) Hari's servant come to fetch him.
(d) a Eurasian living in the Residency.

3. What do so-called amative characteristics exemplify according to phrenology?
(a) characteristics of goodwill to mankind.
(b) characteristics of sexual love.
(c) characteristics of a poetic nature.
(d) characteristics of romantic love.

4. Whom did Mr. Ford notice among the returning sepoys?
(a) several groups of defecting Eurasians and native Christians.
(b) several squadrons of lancers, trailing the green flag of Islam.
(c) the armies of several maharajahs.
(d) native farmers who had joined themselves to the sepoys.

5. What object was crucial to the morale of the garrison?
(a) the marble bust of Socrates
(b) the canon
(c) the Union Jack
(d) the Enfield rifle

Short Answer Questions

1. What finally kills the sepoy whom Fleury tried to strangle with a violin string?

2. What happens to the Collector in Chapter 19?

3. Who had the Ten Commandments translated into the vernacular and chiseled in stones by the roadside?

4. What is a new arrival in the colony called?

5. What color were the flags flying in the cantonment in Chapter 25?

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