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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the other ladies of the Residency resent regarding Lucy?
(a) that she was prettier than they were.
(b) that she wore such scant clothing.
(c) that she was allowed to sleep in the Billiard room.
(d) that she was better educated.

2. What kind of rifles were propped up against the balustrade?
(a) Enfield rifles.
(b) rifles with bayonets.
(c) Sheffield rifles.
(d) 22 calibre rifles.

3. Who were the dhobi?
(a) Indians who washed the clothes of the British.
(b) native Christians.
(c) waterbuffalo.
(d) the Eurasians.

4. Who had formed the habit of sleeping clasped in each other's arms?
(a) Louise and MIriam.
(b) the O'Hanlon sisters.
(c) the Collector's two eldest daughters.
(d) Dr. and Mrs. Dunstaple.

5. Dr. Dunstaple makes fun of what native practice that Dr. McNab uses?
(a) rubbing mud into wounds.
(b) ants as stitches.
(c) bee pollen for the skin.
(d) leeches.

6. 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) took itself to the refuge of the river during the hot spell.
(d) reclined beneath the hood of the cobra.

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

8. What is Harry afraid of?
(a) snakes.
(b) pariah dogs.
(c) a native uprising.
(d) cholera.

9. Who do Harry and Fleury ride to warn telling them to come to the Residency for safety?
(a) the Maharajah and his son Hari.
(b) the soldiers.
(c) the opium factory workers.
(d) the indigo farmers.

10. What does the Magistrate decide to do for the native Christians during the expected siege?
(a) give them food.
(b) take them into the cantonment.
(c) give them guns to protect themselves.
(d) give them a certificate stating their loyalty to the Residency.

11. How did Abdallah try to cheer up the Magistrate?
(a) by telling him an entertaining Sufi tale.
(b) by telling him that the Bristish were a superior race.
(c) by telling him a Mohammedan joke against the Hindus.
(d) by reassuring him that the British were safe.

12. What were the money lenders known as?
(a) pariahs.
(b) infidels.
(c) bunniahs.
(d) khansamahs.

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

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

15. What does Fleury attempt to retrieve for the dead man's wife?
(a) his pocket watch.
(b) his locket.
(c) his pocket bible.
(d) a lock of his hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was there a massacre when the Magistrate was visiting the farmers and discussing the flooding of the river?

2. What was shattering the Collector's nerves in Chapter 10?

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

4. Who does the Collector embrace on the stairs?

5. What does the Collector do after spending some time in his study?

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