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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 did Miriam speak of which shocked Louise?
(a) the smell of urine.
(b) Mr. Hopkin's natural functions.
(c) the boils the women were getting.
(d) the possibility of the women being raped during the siege.

2. What does Fleury lecture prince Hari about?
(a) phrenology.
(b) the value in hard work.
(c) the superiority of the British.
(d) the uselessness of material things.

3. Who dies, considered by the British and native defenders alike to be a hero?
(a) Lieutenant Cosgrove.
(b) Lieutenant Cutter.
(c) Lieutenant Barkley.
(d) Lieutenant Hargreaves.

4. What finally kills the sepoy whom Fleury tried to strangle with a violin string?
(a) Rayne drives a bayonet through him.
(b) the heavy pistol that had formerly not fired.
(c) Fleury's sabre.
(d) Harry shoots him.

5. How much longer does the Collector estimate the food will last?
(a) another two or three weeks.
(b) another two or three days.
(c) about a week.
(d) another month or two.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which psalm does the Padre read for the christening of the baby?

2. The Collector mused about the qualities of what insects at the beginning of Chapter 8?

3. Who brings word that the relieving force has arrived?

4. What was one of the characteristics of the black bugs called cockchafers?

5. Who had formed the habit of sleeping clasped in each other's arms?

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