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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Dr. Dunstaple look like?
(a) thin and intellectual.
(b) fat, his legs looking too short for his round body.
(c) medium-build, with an athletic body.
(d) large and imposing.

3. What was the name of the Collector's English manservant?
(a) Blakely.
(b) Smith.
(c) Vokins.
(d) Higgins.

4. What were the two fat Sikhs chewing in this chapter?
(a) pan.
(b) Kabul grapes.
(c) chapatis.
(d) tobacco.

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

6. What was the name of the Padre's mother?
(a) Mrs. Hampton.
(b) Mrs. Harvey.
(c) Mrs. Barlow.
(d) Mrs. Hadley.

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

8. What does the Collector do after spending some time in his study?
(a) He goes to comfort the women in the billiard room.
(b) He goes to the church to speak with the Padre.
(c) He goes to the banqueting hall for dinner.
(d) He goes to encourage the men in Dunstaple's battery.

9. What is Fleury thinking about as the Padre and the Collector dig graves and argue?
(a) the seriousness of the siege.
(b) the comparison of the pariah dogs and the domestic dogs.
(c) the difference between Protestantism and Catholicism.
(d) how he acted at the party in front of Louise.

10. Which room was the Collector's favorite room and why?
(a) the library where all his books were.
(b) the study because it contained all his favorite objects.
(c) the dining hall where he could socialize.
(d) his bedroom where he felt safe and serene.

11. What is the name of the Spaniel traveling with the new British arrivals in the colony?
(a) Chloe.
(b) Zoe.
(c) Curly.
(d) Bertha.

12. What does the Collector help the Padre do?
(a) load the canon with metal objects.
(b) sermonize.
(c) man the Enfield rifles.
(d) dig graves.

13. Where was there a massacre when the Magistrate was visiting the farmers and discussing the flooding of the river?
(a) the Punjab.
(b) Delhi.
(c) Captainganj.
(d) Calcutta.

14. The two giant marble busts that Harry dragged to each side of the cannon were of whom?
(a) Aristotle and Homer.
(b) Plato and Socrates.
(c) Voltaire and Baudelaire.
(d) Shakespeare and Hugo.

15. What was the physical manifestation of the Collector's grieving mind?
(a) the piles of British possessions in the billiard room.
(b) the burned out bungalows.
(c) his shattered and dissheveled bedroom.
(d) the graves he digs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object was crucial to the morale of the garrison?

2. What is Louise able to make for them to eat to celebrate Fleury's birthday?

3. What does Dr. Dunstaple call Dr. McNab?

4. What topic does the Magistrate lecture about?

5. Dr. Dunstaple makes fun of what native practice that Dr. McNab uses?

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